Death Quote by Elie Wiesel

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters,…

— Anne Rice

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your life, at…

— Tim O'Brien

I'm interested in how memory and power come together in evil. These are obsessions of mine that appear throughout, like the theme of music.…

— Jaume Cabre

“Good writing arises out of obsession. With obsession there is emotional depth and a certain weight and gravity to the language and story. Without…

— Fred Arroyo

In my own works I am an obsessionist. Though I write humorous music too, much of it has been obsessed by death and the…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

To see an obsession no more than habit born from fear and fatigue robs it from its fear inspiring quality, and with fear gone…

— Mayma

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our…

— Isabel Allende

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

— Hilary Mantel

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

— Dani Shapiro

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

— Seamus Heaney

I don't feel like I have the greatest memory, so finding selfish motivations for writing things down helps... I'm like, it would be really…

— Gracie Abrams