Quotes About Obsession

One does not marry art. One ravishes it.

I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail.

A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone.

I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.

Only a monomaniac gets anything done.

Your obsession determines what you pay attention to. Your observations are limited to the focus of your mind.

Focusing on worldly achievements and acceptance has never been the way to true happiness, and an obsessive, discontent with our physical appearance can lead to unhappiness if not despair.

It was your personality that consumed me. You became my favorite. My favorite of them all…

It's because you absolutely love the sport.

I am obsessed with good buying books

There are degrees of obsession, of awareness, of grief, of insanity.

She kept saying, "I am free, James! I am so free! I cannot believe how obsessed I was about my body! What was I thinking? How crazy!" This struck me as extremely funny because anybody who knew Debbie knew that she was very concerned about her appearance, always wanting to look her best.

Tip 7. Read good books until the characters in each story run from you in terror.

When the world comes to an end, we'll all still be trying to charge our phones. Until the last second.

People think copywriters are obsessed with words. This isn't correct. The word should be 'infatuated' - it fits the context better.

It has been speculated that Poe's obsession with premature burial was due to necrophilia or that he used it as a metaphor for loneliness--- a sentient corpse buried alive by his unfeeling peers in the unfathomable tomb of the universe.

he was 'nuts about her', as the parlance of the day had it, as if it were generally recognised that love and madness are adjoining rooms with extremely porous walls.

This obsession you have with funnel cake isn't healthy,

I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father's had become, during his earlier years of a miller's life.

There are only two kinds of women in the world, those who love shoes and those who had the misfortune to be born without the ability to experience total bliss on finding a pair of perfectly designed pumps in the right size at half price.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.

I tried to avoid looking at the skull, but somehow I wanted to keep checking that it was still there. It's like when you have a sore in your mouth or tooth ache – your tongue keeps going back to check it still hurts.