“because for some people facts were just minor irritants that got in the way of their obsessions. Got” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
Writers interest me for their style, their obsessions, the ways in which they approach the world. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine. — Andres Serrano Copy Share Image
Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them. — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. — Emile M. Cioran 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
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
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
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
. . . 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“I’m typing away, wondering why I had that Pepsi Throwback at such a late hour. Caffeine is a compulsion. Art is an… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“Cutting down a wall, the wall sawyer could feel the tension in a home ease and something windy rush in circles round… — Meia Geddes Copy Share Image
“His obsessions don’t manifest themselves physically, but they certainly lay other species of snares and traps in hidden corners of his mind.… — Grant Ginder Copy Share Image
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
