Book Quote by Kate Forsyth

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

— Vikram Seth

Writing is putting one's obsessions in order.

— Jean Grenier

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

— Marguerite Young

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

— Scarlett Thomas

We sometimes drive ourselves crazy with how our books will be "seen," when in fact we already know what they're about, and where our…

— Meg Wolitzer

Writing a book is about me doing the work to get from the obsessive particular to something that reaches out of that in some…

— Lucy Corin

I'm obsessed with books. When a good book hits me, it's all I can think about and all I can do.

— Jessie Cave

“..the writer’s obsession – the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of…

— Ivan Klima

“Books have a curious effect on those with certain predispositions to fall into obsession.”

— Kane X. Faucher

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.

— Annie Dillard