Pastoral Resources

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

Obsessions turn people off.

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.

Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.