#true

A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house! ↗

— Jennifer Wilson

#friendship #housekeeping #real-friends #true-friends #friendship

My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

#cape #characters #city #drawn #dwellers

You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is? ↗

— Rebecca Wells

#friendship-true-and-loyal #friendship

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#good #kinds #life #literature #live

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always. ↗

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#alas #always #industry #nature #overall

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true. ↗

— Don Henley

#forget #get #head #melody #notes

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#caring #facial #gives #grows #her

Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#always #because #costs #end #energy

What do dreams matter if you lose yourself along the way? ↗

— Amy Fellner Dominy

#true-to-self #dreams

It's a luxury being a writer because all you ever think about is life. ↗

— Amy Tan

#so-true-for-me #beauty