What writers want. Really. All of these.

I'm trying to find one poignant bit from Lydia Netzer's (Shine, Shine, Shine) blog post on what writers really want and need, but there are too many. I'll settle for this:

As much as you feel like you've already stroked this needy author's ego
quite enough, consider the fact that probably right now the soundtrack
in their head is something along the lines of this: "That last book was a
fluke. Nothing you say makes sense. You couldn't write your way out of a
tiger moat. The things that are...