Obsession Quote by Kevin Wilson

“He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply…

— Andrew James Pritchard

“That's what he disliked about certain artists and writers. They interfered and pointed to everything as if you couldn't see it or read for…

— Frank McCourt

“He started to do that, started to inform me of everything; the inconsequential, the meaningful; conversations that ended in a cul-de-sac of unanswerable rhetoric.…

— Sarah Winman

“He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that…

— Niall Williams

“That was originally what I had loved him for: that at a period when our native land was nude and crude and provincial, when…

— Henry James

“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw.”

— C.S. Lewis

“He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.”

— Adam Langer

“Writing had never become routine for him, but remained a constant surprise. He was always surprised at how much fun it was, once it…

— Nora Roberts

“Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched spelling, the…

— Don DeLillo

“The writing seemed like the books that held it; crumbly and antique and bearing the stink of centuries. Still, it was compelling. His voice…

— Lauren Groff

“As I repeatedly went forth with him and began to understand the ignorance and contradictions and language difficulties with which he contended, and the…

— Joseph O'Neill

“He didn't much like reading novels - he preferred history or philosophy - or poetry, although he could read only a little poetry at…

— Claire Messud