Quotes about Obsession

What a man seeks is beauty, plain and simple. No other way to put it. The rustle of her clothes, her scent. The sweep of her hair across his naked stomach ( . . . ) That the man knows not how to even name that which enslaves him hardly lightens his burden.

He thought perhaps if he dreamt of him enough he'd go away forever and be dead among his kind

A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves. No matter even if it kills him? I think so. Yes. No matter what.

Light, old boy? said Beatrice, tilting her cigarette at him. He bent forward to her to light his cigarette at hers. She was winking at him as he did so. Miriam saw his eyes trembling with mischief, and his full, almost sensual mouth quivering. He was not himself, and she could not bear it. As he was now, she had no connection with him, she might as well not have existed. She saw the cigarette dancing on his full red lips. She hated his thick hair for being tumbled loose on his forehead.

To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.

Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.

I'm such a workaholic. I'm always thinking about work.

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

"Never give up on something you can't go a day without thinking about."

He loved to handle cash, and he drove himself and all that belonged to him in the direction of money as if it were as far off as heaven and as if he were running out of time;

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

curiosity is another of the mistresses whose slaves decline no sacrifice.