Interview with Divina Infusino in American Way (15 June 1995)
“You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
Source: The Hotel New Hampshire, ch. 11
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“Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art”
“Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.”
Letter to Lady Dickinson (28 November 1917), quoted in Robert Rhodes James (ed.), Memoirs of a Conservative: J. C. C. Davidson's Memoirs and Papers, 1910-1937 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969), p. 79.
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Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much