If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters…

“His obsessions don’t manifest themselves physically, but they certainly lay other species of snares and traps in hidden corners of his mind. They lasso…

— Grant Ginder

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

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

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

— Scarlett Thomas