Ernest Cline Quotes

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Anything I do, I do fanatically.

I've always been somebody who sort of throws himself, you could say, obsessively into whatever thing I'm passionate about.

Obession makes everything possible

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.

I don't even think about the word. But I do have certain things where I just go, "Aaaaahhh," irritatingly boring and insistent because I want it to look that way and I can do it - I don't even know if you'd call it passion or obsession. Obsession, possibly, but I really love what I do.

I can be horrifically single-minded.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so deadly focused on something that they want or desire - there's a dedication and a single-mindedness that's great. But then if it goes on too long it becomes a psychosis. What's the French term for it? Idee fixe.

I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off.

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

I tend to obsess over my passions.

I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

It will always be the ball and me.

I guess I get really obsessive or passionate about things.

I've always been one of those people - once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.

From the time I was 11 until I was 23 and met my wife, wrestling was all I cared about. It was an obsession, and that's why I think I ended up making it. There was no other option for me.

Whenever I do something, I tend to focus on it and spend all of my time and energy on it.

I don't understand why 'obsessive' has a negative connotation, I'm an obsessive and I like it. I get an idea and I stick to it.

When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.

I will fight to be here as much as possible. I only have Madrid in my head.

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.