I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.
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.
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.
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.
I have such love to the point of obsessions of people and their minds, and I'm constantly trying to find the beauty in things, and I think people are such unique and complex creatures.
Without obsession, life is nothing.
An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.
If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
Cure for an obsession: get another one.