Obsessions Quotes

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

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 artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

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 to make your audience care about your obsessions.

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, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.

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.

Obsessions turn people off.

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

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

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.

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