Writing is putting one's obsessions in order.

I would rather give up acting than become world famous, because I think you pay a very high price. Writing and putting new plays…

— Lindsay Duncan

When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I have a few obsessions in life, and one is shoes!

— Danielle Steel

“It's people with obsessions who do the real harm in the world.”

— Dick Francis

Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and…

— Andre Gide

It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions.

— Amber Dermont

I don't understand people's obsessions.

— FKA twigs

Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those…

— Jon Ronson

Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation.

— Mary Heilmann

There's always something else to work on and different solutions to these problems in the next thing. We each have a certain set of…

— Leni Zumas

People never cease to project on to God their individual and collective obsessions, so that they can appropriate and make use of him. But…

— Olivier Clement

Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.

— Pamela Stephenson

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

— Emile M. Cioran

For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are,…

— Jess Walter

OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus…

— Ambrose Bierce