“What you need isn’t always what you want.”

“write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.”

“You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.”

“You write poems
because you need
a place
where what isn’t may be”

“You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.”

“If he still isn’t giving you what you want, the question to ask yourself is whether you really want him.”

“Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.”
Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est. Quod non opus est, asse carum est.

“The press is always looking for a little twist to a story and what I've learned is that it all turns out very superficial. So you need to become what they want, you need to give what they put out.”

“There’s a lot of pressure on romance, I think, because you have to be so truthful. But that’s what you want, isn’t it? You just want to find the truth in everything.”

“Wish for what you want, work for what you need.
-Carmen's grandmother”