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Needs Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
- Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
- You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a…
- You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work.…
- They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering…
- I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled…
- He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.
- The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.
- And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need,…
- The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me. When the leaders…
- What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise…
- at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits…
- What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is…
- Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do…
- The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.
- I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need unfairness, it's one…
- You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like…
- What people want is perfection," said the man. "In themselves." "But they need the steps to it to be pointed out," said the woman. "In…
- When they came to harvest my corpse (open your mouth, close your eyes) cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I was still alive.…
- Where to start is the problem, because nothing begins when it begins and nothing's over when it's over, and everything needs a preface: a preface,…
- Those walls and bars are there for a reason,” said Crake. “Not to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in…
- I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that…
- By now you know: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, "Take me to your leaders." Even I--unused to your…
- Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're…
More Needs Quotes
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs. — Desi Arnaz