Writers interest me for their style, their obsessions, the ways in which they approach the world. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I hate the way my life has been inexplicably overwhelmed by questionnaires. Life is so much stranger and so much more beautiful… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“How much of our lives is spent in reverie, in wishing for what cannot be, in regretting what might have been avoided.… — David K. Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather,… — LJS 2 Motivate Copy Share Image
The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that’s old people’s hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that’s what… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
These were always obsessions of mine, even as a very young child. These were things that interested me as the years went… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well,… — Bradford Morrow Copy Share Image
“The writer’s obsessions are twofold. First, communicate their thoughts onto paper with a great degree of precision in order accurately to express… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
People never cease to project on to God their individual and collective obsessions, so that they can appropriate and make use of… — Olivier Clement Copy Share Image
“Finally, Luther, Bunyan, and Thérèse all developed mature religious philosophies that differed from those of their communities because (from a psychiatric standpoint)… — Ian Osborn Copy Share Image
Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“For careers you say you went to be remembered for your art Your obsessions get you known throughout the school for being… — Belle & Sebastian Copy Share Image
I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Not caring about what others would think is the first item on the list of advice for anyone aspiring to do anything… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
There's always something else to work on and different solutions to these problems in the next thing. We each have a certain… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If… — Roberta Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obsessions. I've learned to wear them. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with… — Edward Betts Copy Share Image
Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road,… — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
