“You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”

“Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

“Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.”

Martin Scorsese (1942) American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor

“I get an obsession that everybody is out for what they can get during the war and it makes me sick.”

Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.”

Naomi Wolf (1962) American writer

“You’re all so obsessed with other worlds, you’re so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you’ve never bothered to figure out what’s going on here!”

Lev Grossman The Magician King

“After obsessively Googling symptoms for four hours, I discovered 'obsessively Googling symptoms' is a symptom of hypochondria.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

“There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.”

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (1968) Canadian writer

“What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.”

Ann Brashares (1967) American children's writer

“Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.”

Walter Moers book The City of Dreaming Books