Inner Need Quotes

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.

I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.

You teach best that which you need most to learn.

I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.

Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.

Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take her meaning and her living from the saying of them.

Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.

"But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?" I answer, "What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need - the need of Himself?"

Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.

Cats gotta scratch. Dogs gotta bite. I gotta write.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.

This gives us more time to attend the inner need.

when the need is in the mind, you cannot satisfy the need

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

I really only take roles that I love and that I have some kind of innate compulsion or need to tell that story. Although it's almost like I have no control over it. It's like they choose me.