“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
“The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.” WritingIdeasStoriesBrainLet MeObsession Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.” WritingAbleDiesGoes OnFunctionObsession Author:Farley Mowat
“Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with anti-mythology, ... There's not a lot of realistic, observant writing about the West right now.” WritingViewsRight NowTiredWestMythologyObsessionObsessedRealisticPhonyObservant Author:Walter Kirn