Obsessions Quotes

98 quotes by 91 authors

I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise… — Leonard Cohen
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them. — Scarlett Thomas
What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far. — Leon Wieseltier
I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football. — Alan Davies
I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep… — Mark Feuerstein
I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing about… — Richard Dooling
Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his… — Laura Mulvey
It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions. — Amber Dermont
You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions — Wendy Carlos
The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent. — Vera Farmiga
Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make… — Eric Maisel
I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without… — Emile M. Cioran
I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a… — Justin Cronin
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. — John Irving
I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If… — Marjane Satrapi
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy,… — Amartya Sen
Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is… — Bruce Springsteen
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some… — John Updike
. . . All artistsâ€™ work is autobiographical. Any writerâ€™s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are,… — Kim Addonizio
Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing… — Martin Amis

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