Needs Quotes

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All them 5s need to listen when the 10 is talking — Drake
Worried bout ya followers? You need to get ya dollars up. — Drake
Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task that… — Lev S. Vygotsky
Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with the… — Helen Dunmore
Everyone needs an editor. — Timothy Foote
As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint. — Joan Aiken
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship.… — Jorge Luis Borges
You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written that… — Neil Gaiman
Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and… — Anne Lamott
I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write. — Toni Morrison
To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive. — Sol Stein
Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like… — Lewis Thomas
Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care. — Norman Cousins
I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to… — E L Doctorow
Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof, there's… — Unknown Author
I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with… — Chuck Palahniuk
I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just… — Joyce Carol Oates
The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along.… — Lewis Thomas
If you know Christ, you don't need to beg for the Holy Spirit to come into your life; He is already there- whether you "feel"… — Billy Graham
Awareness is our true self; it's what we are. So we don't have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we… — Joko Beck
People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts. — Alan Cohen
The McCarthy period came along...and many of the other scientists who had been working on these same lines gave up. Probably saying "Why should I… — Linus Pauling
The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not… — H. L. Mencken
I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle. — Erma Bombeck

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