Compulsively Quotes

30 quotes by 28 authors

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. — William S. Burroughs
Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish all science fiction… — Craig Shaw Gardner
Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not only for her… — Christopher Castellani
My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled… — Stan Getz
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer — Rita Dove
Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. Itâ€™s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you… — Karin Slaughter
The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships between their serial… — Sherry Ortner
Today, all our wives and husbands have Blackberries or iPhones or Android devices or whatever-the progeny of those original 950 and 957 models that put… — Ian Bogost
You can take the girl out of the library, but you canâ€™t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl. — Molly Harper
I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh… — Travis Walton
Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaulâ€™s research is extraordinary; his writing is… — Debby Applegate
If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac. — Tim Vine
I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal. — Jules Feiffer
We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing… — Lewis Thomas
I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things. — Andrew Sullivan
If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively. — Pierre Dukan
Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and… — Paramahansa Yogananda
I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love… — Albert Ellis
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind… — Rem Koolhaas
The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality. — Jon Landau

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