#session

To have the beginning of a truly great story, you need to have a character you're completely and utterly obsessed with. Without obsession, to the point of a maddening addiction,there's no point to continue. ↗

— Jennifer Salaiz

#madness #obsession #writing #obsession

Guys like you can't escape the city. Hell, you a got a blood contract with this place. You're married to the old girl. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#obsession #new-york-city

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#consider #hesitation #his #man #material

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#call #carried #discipline #i #i see

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#ever #out #possession #soul #their

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#does #getting #going #invades #invasion

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#asylum #conversation #cut #each #every

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#culture #having #heavy #into #paid

Dancing is my obsession. My life. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#life #my life #obsession

I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#become #being #book #faster #friend