„Characters are born from necessity.“

— Christopher Paolini
„Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.“
— W. H. Auden
„The necessity for fiction was probably born of the problem of taboo on certain revelations. It was not only a need of the imagination but an answer to the limitations placed on portrayal of others.“
— Anaïs Nin
„In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual, you are left…with a foolish grin.“
— Emil M. Cioran