I write pretty much when I can. I used to be very particular about needing certain conditions for writing, but when I had children, I discovered that I was a lot more flexible than I thought.

- Ann Packer

If I wasn't plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing.

- Conor McPherson

And I think that, of course, there is some dysfunction of needing to be liked or noticed or to feel part of things, something going on there for most actors. For some there's not and I think they really struggle with it.

- Hugh Jackman

Now, I'm back to my old ways: Needing to be the leader, needing to score.

- James Harden

As much as I can act, I don't have anything in me that yearns to be an actor - that sense of needing to be onstage, in costume, in character; that is utterly not interesting to me.

- Jason Robert Brown

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

- Kate Atkinson

It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.

- Lewis Thomas

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

- Margaret Mead

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

Do I need men? I don't think it's about needing men. It's about love.

- Reese Witherspoon

There are those who leave without our needing to detain them; we have said all there is to say.

- Richard Eyre

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

- Seamus Heaney

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

- Wayne Dyer