“I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.” IfsWritingTogetherNovelSeeingBelieverObsessionGatheringGathering Together Author:Scarlett Thomas
“My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma. That's where I trace the familial line of murder mystery obsession.” DoeBookFactsMotherLinesNovelMysteryAdventureDadMurderMy DadObsessionSpyGrandmaMachoMy GrandmaMurder MysteriesAdventure BooksShoguns Author:Christopher Bollen
“Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point of ostracism; to define oneself, and by extension one's generation, as new, novel, ungovernable.” NeedsArtNovelGenerationsArt IsOneselfObsessionRebellionExtensionsEldersOstracism Book:Where I've Been, and where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose Source: Where I've Been, and where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose
“I'm inspired by dreams and shadows, obsession and desire. By nature, I'm a dream collector and never stop working. I question people about their weirdest dreams and the strangest, most inexplicable experiences they've had. All this information whirls around in my mind, and new dreams emerge that form the seeds of stories and novels.” PeopleMindStoriesDreamFormDesireNovelInformationShadowInspiredSeedsObsessionCollectorsInexplicable Author:Storm Constantine
“The Mapuche are our indigenous people from the south, the Patagonia. They are a vey wise and luminous ancient cavitation, which is completely opposite to where Nazism was headed. In the novel [Wakolda], the theme of racial purity and the Nazi obsession with it was much more developed.” PeopleNovelWiseOppositesSouthAncientObsessionPurityThemeNaziIndigenousLuminousNazismIndigenous PeoplePatagonia Author:Lucia Puenzo