Believer Quote by Scarlett Thomas

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

You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word…

— Kate Forsyth

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

— Marguerite Young

Writing is putting one's obsessions in order.

— Jean Grenier

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

I'm obsessed with books.

— David Sylvian

There are so many things that interest me more than standing on the stage of my own obsessions.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.

— Peter Greenaway

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

— Philip Larkin

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

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

— Vikram Seth

I have this obsession with really cool, old books.

— Constance Zimmer