Quotes About Obsession

Death by Trivial Pursuits

But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it's like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You can't just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book.

Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.

As it became clear to Shimamura that he had from the start wanted only this woman, and that he had taken his usual roundabout way of saying so, he began to see himself as rather repulsive and the woman as all the more beautiful

Se preguntó si era su juventud y su inocencia lo que habían dado tanta intensidad a ese amor. Quizás eso explicara su pasión ciega e insaciable. Cuando en un espasmo mordía el hombro de Oki, ni siguiera advertía la sangre que manaba de la herida.

After you left me I had a bloodhound sniff at my chest and my belly. Let it fill its nostrils and set out to find you. I hope it will find you and rip your lover's balls to shreds and bite off his cock— or at least bring me one of your stockings between its teeth.

The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.

He wanted to meet her for the first time, over and over...He told himself the story that this was the great tragedy of his heart. The great tragedy of his heart was that it always needed to be told a story.

We knew that they, in their own time, had feared school, just as we did now, feared the arbitrary rules and felt shamed by them, by the new uniforms they couldn't afford, the baffling obsession with quiet, the incessant correcting of their original patois or cockney, the sense that they could never do anything right anyway. A

Wherever he was, whatever he was doing, he found himself suddenly accosted by some kind of synaesthetic fixation with the woman: hearing the colour of her hair in the mosque, smelling the touch of her hand on the tube, tasting her smile while innocently walking the streets on his way to work; and this in turn led to a knowledge of every public convenience in London, led to the kind of masturbation that even a fifteen-year-old boy living in Shetlands might find excessive.

because America is the kind of bitch who turns anyone who truly cares about Her into a crazy person.

when you're writing it's such an obsessive thing, and then when you're done it's like pushing something out of your body (...)

You dream… or you're driven mad.

A husband I may be, but the change is my mistress and I can never stray. -Leo Bailey Demons Bride

I'm obsessed with accents.

One cannot accomplish anything without fanatacism.

I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.

I'm a huge food addict.

I'm a TV addict.

I am a roller-coaster addict.

If I brought another car home, there would be problems. I have a lot of cars as it is. I'm a car addict.

I'm a real security addict and I've always channelled far too much of my life into accumulating money.

I need to stop but I'm seriously addicted to shoes.

I'm definitely addicted to purses.