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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

Obsessions turn people off.

I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.

Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.

My interests and obsessions have always been so wide-ranging that I keep popping my head out of different boxes as much as possible.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.