--- title: "10 Needs Quotes By Tana French" description: "10 Needs quotes by Tana French. Plus more from Tana French and more Needs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e5/tana-french-1016_away_don-t-you-ever-feel-that-that-you-just-n_2663576.png" --- > [Don't you ever feel that - that you just need to get away? From everything? That it's all too much?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/don-t-you-ever-feel-that-that-you-just-need-to-get-away-from/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e5/tana-french-1016_away_don-t-you-ever-feel-that-that-you-just-n_2663576.png) > [We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/we-were-still-at-the-age-when-girls-are-years-older-than-guy-and-the/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afc/tana-french-1016_age_we-were-still-at-the-age-when-girls-are_1571775.png) > [If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/if-you-rewrite-a-paragraph-fifty-times-and-forty-nine-of-them-are/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/431/tana-french-1016_fifty_if-you-rewrite-a-paragraph-fifty-times-a_1678109.png) > [People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/people-need-a-moral-code-to-help-them-make-decisions-all-this-bio/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84b/tana-french-1016_backwards_people-need-a-moral-code-to-help-them-ma_1855532.png) > [Don't get discouraged if you're hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/don-t-get-discouraged-if-you-re-hammering-away-at-a-sentence-or-a/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/315/tana-french-1016_chapters_don-t-get-discouraged-if-you-re-hammerin_1077408.jpg) > [I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/i-m-still-very-much-in-the-apprentice-stage-of-writing-i-read/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ca/tana-french-1016_apprentice_i-m-still-very-much-in-the-apprentice-st_979089.png) > [If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/if-you-re-writing-a-scene-for-a-character-with-whom-you-disagree-in/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/tana-french-1016_books_if-you-re-writing-a-scene-for-a-characte_565757.png) > [I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/i-ve-got-this-theory-that-human-beings-are-innately-religious-we-have/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fad/tana-french-1016_behavior_i-ve-got-this-theory-that-human-beings-a_175832.png) > [Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/now-that-s-a-concept-that-s-always-fascinated-me-the-real-world-only/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b0/tana-french-1016_breathe_now-that-s-a-concept-that-s-always-fasci_218786.jpg) > [We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/we-had-no-one-else-to-learn-this-from-none-of-our-parents-were/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fd/tana-french-1016_adults_we-had-no-one-else-to-learn-this-from-no_2430707.png) ## Other authors on Needs ## More by Tana French > [“...the solitude was intoxicating. On my first night there I lay on my back on the sticky carpet for hours, in the murky orange…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/the-solitude-was-intoxicating-on-my-first-night-there-i-lay-on-my/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [“I remember this country back when I was growing up. We went to church, we ate family suppers around the table, and it would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/i-remember-this-country-back-when-i-was-growing-up-we-went-to-church/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [“That house shimmered in my mind like some fairy fort that appeared for one day in a lifetime, tantalizing and charged, with those four…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/that-house-shimmered-in-my-mind-like-some-fairy-fort-that-appeared/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [“It would take a while to occur to him that my rules had sweet fuck-all in common with his.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/it-would-take-a-while-to-occur-to-him-that-my-rules-had-sweet-fuck/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/i-love-writing-i-feel-ridiculously-lucky-that-this-is-what-i-get-to/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [“…out here in the real world, my man, you would be amazed how seldom murder has to break into people’s lives. Ninety-nine times out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/out-here-in-the-real-world-my-man-you-would-be-amazed-how-seldom/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [“Before I could get my bearings he was on top of me and shoving my face down into the dirt. He was bigger and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/before-i-could-get-my-bearings-he-was-on-top-of-me-and-shoving-my/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [We think of mortality so little these days... I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones. Remember,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/we-think-of-mortality-so-little-these-days-i-thought-of-the-stern/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/i-read-a-lot-i-always-have-but-in-those-two-years-i-gorged-myself-on/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [“For ten years Dublin’s been changing faster than our minds can handle. The economic boom has given us too many people with helicopters and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/for-ten-years-dublin-s-been-changing-faster-than-our-minds-can-handle/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/when-we-can-t-see-a-pattern-we-fit-pieces-together-until-one-takes/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [“Stephen shrugged. “Yeah. Well. I said I would.” “Ah. Are we having issues?” “This feels sleazy.” “I promise I’ll respect you in the morning.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/stephen-shrugged-yeah-well-i-said-i-would-ah-are-we-having-issues/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [“She hears all the voices from when she was little, soothing, strengthening: Don’t be scared, not of monsters, not of witches, not of big…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/she-hears-all-the-voices-from-when-she-was-little-soothing/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [“Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/our-relationship-with-truth-is-fundamental-but-cracked-refracting/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [My night stand is permanently jammed with books I want to read.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/my-night-stand-is-permanently-jammed-with-books-i-want-to-read/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/needs/tana-french/#itemlist", "name": "10 Needs Quotes By Tana French", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Don't you ever feel that - that you just need to get away? 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