Susan Cheever Quotes

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

My brother Paul's really kind of obsessive, and he obsesses over things.

I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.

Romantic love is an addiction.

I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave.

Most people have had that feeling of like, being obsessed with someone, and losing self control a bit, and that hopefully humanises addiction a bit.

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

There are certain parts of a classic nerd's brain that can destroy that person - obsessing about things to the detriment of everything else in your life. But those are the same tools that you can use to turn everything around.

Obsession is such a naughty word - it's a very intense word. I'm obsessed with music, always have been. I can't lie. And I'm obviously obsessed with my child, my child's life and the little things that he does.

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.

Obsession can be a great thing or it can also destroy lives.

There's an obsessive quality to it that I thought I would've grown out of by now. It's an ongoing source of shame for me.

I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.

Love without evidence is stalking.

I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge.

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

The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over, on every available surface. Love.

You have a transportation fetish. I have a Gideon fetish. It's been weeks.

You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're doin' everything I do. Every time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs. I take a drink and I look in and they're drinkin' too. It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts.

When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything else, very hard to see the larger picture of options that is your life, very hard to consider what else you might need or want or fear were you not so intently focused on one crushing passion. I sat in my room every night, with rare exceptions, for three and a half years.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.

If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.