M.V. Carey Quotes

It does no good to run. And it does no good to hide. But I know what it's like. Your brain shuts down, and you follow your instincts. Or, at least, you.

It's not a holiday until you overdo it!

When a book is read an irrevocable thing happens — a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders the story on the page, and takes its place.

I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.

All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.

I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

Then I fell in love and everything went to hell.

And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a bad review, you can't talk back, and it's sort of shaming in a way.

I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.

One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.

Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close friend to cheer us up.

So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.

You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.

One of the most important goals to have may well be the goal to create the life you want without preventing other people from creating the life they want.

Spending time with the child or adolescent in mutually enjoyable activities on a regular basis will help to build warmth and trust.

Seeking the counsel of trusted and respected health professionals can also be helpful in providing parents with some balance for their concerns as well as other avenues of support.

One of the premises of parenting might be that the job of parents is to teach their kids to get along without them.

People need to feel safe to talk without their ideas being criticized, judged, demeaned, or mocked.

Sometimes offering support and making yourself available when the child or adolescent is ready to talk can be the most helpful you can be.

There is no one best way for parents to become the parents they want to be just as there is no one best way for a child to grow into a contented and contributing member of society.

I consider parenting skills, those skills that help children: (1) develop clear and important goals; and (2) figure out flexible and persistent ways of achieving their goals.

Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children.

A parenting program should focus on parent's attitudes to themselves, their children, and the relationships they are building with their children.

A parenting program should provide time for parents to clarify their own ideas about what it means to be an effective and successful parent.

Parents should be able to develop goals about the type of parents they want to be.

Accessing a "professional listener" such as a psychologist or counselor can be useful if the loved one wants to use this form of support.

I'm just impressed when someone can capture all the crazy beauty of the light that is all around us. It's amazing to me. I don't consider myself a photographer, but I really want to get into it.

Love as thou wilt

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.

All knowledge is worth having.

Michael: There's nothing here to fear.Lucifer: Well, there's always the truth.

But you can't save people from the world.There's nowhere else to take them

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

I loved my mother too, ' I said. 'I still do. That's the thing - it never goes away, even if the person does.

Funerals aren't scheduled.

One cannot make bargains for blissesOr catch them like fishes in netsAnd sometimes the things that life misses Help more than the things that it gets.

The greatest hindrance to growth in faith is comfortable living.

Fear is a serviceable tool, I suppose. Like the stalls in a battery farm. If you want to keep people from their collective strength, make them too afraid of each other to ever meet or talk.

It is a dangerous thing to bring a dream to life....I have watched my deepest, dearest hopes take shape, and I am not entirely sure I like the shape they have taken.

People believe what they are told.

You know what it's like to *lose* yourself in a story. We have brother and sister *souls*.

One of history’s most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong or disgraceful.

I've been working on my craft for a long time. People never want to let go of the whole 'Glitter, '... I'm like, 'It's eight years later, people. Let's move on.

When the time comes, don’t be afraid to open the door, just make sure you choose the right one.

Love when you can, and fight when you must, but stand together and never give up, not to the enemy, and not on each other.

Everything changes, and there’s no denying that. But change isn’t always bad, as long as you hold onto who you truly are, and hold onto each other.

Dragons were a problem sometimes, but they only came on Tuesdays, so you could work around them.

It's only as bad as you make it.