If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
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I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave.
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, by a desire to meet a challenge.
You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.
An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
Without obsession, life is nothing.
I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
Obsessions turn people off.
Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.