"When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out."

Obsession, Passion, Writing, Dedication

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"When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out."

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"The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll. Listen to the doubters, the worriers and the weak, and the vaguest hope of success evaporates."

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Obsession, Exploration, Cost, Endurance

"You might never comprehend my madness. But it stands behind my undying love for you. You're the object of my everything. I'm sorry I've been stupid lately."

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"Then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's soul."

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"I couldn't escape him, now or ever. He'd always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn't control, let alone escape."

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"He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"Damn the way he had control over me."

Shannon A. Thompson, American Author

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"If I died, I'd expect my guy to mourn me forever, and if he tried to hook up with someone else, I'd haunt him till he ended up in a crazy house. Then I'd haunt the girl."

Gena Showalter, American Novelist

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"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."

Norman Mailer, American Novelist

Obsession, Question

"Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too."

Veronica Roth, American Author

Obsession, Love, Emotion, Focus

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David Beckham, English Athlete

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"Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you."

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"Prayer is better than pills."

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"Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind."

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"I lose it when I can't write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off."

Emotion

"There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can."

Expression

"People love books because they're searching for answers to deep, unconscious questions - and books get as close as it's possible to get."

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"The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll. Listen to the doubters, the worriers and the weak, and the vaguest hope of success evaporates."

"You might never comprehend my madness. But it stands behind my undying love for you. You're the object of my everything. I'm sorry I've been stupid lately."

"Then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's soul."

"I couldn't escape him, now or ever. He'd always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn't control, let alone escape."

"He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her."

"Damn the way he had control over me."

"If I died, I'd expect my guy to mourn me forever, and if he tried to hook up with someone else, I'd haunt him till he ended up in a crazy house. Then I'd haunt the girl."

"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."

"Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too."

"I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs."

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"The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome."

"Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you."

"Prayer is better than pills."

"Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind."

"I lose it when I can't write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off."

"There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can."

"People love books because they're searching for answers to deep, unconscious questions - and books get as close as it's possible to get."

"Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own."

"He's in a side room alone with her and it's far too fucking hot."

"It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned."