Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes

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

If I like something, I then have to study every single aspect of it to find out if there's more things that I would like, and it's just this weird hunger to want more. I always feel like there's so much that exists.

Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.

Anything that I'm naturally curious about, I get really into. Maybe it's O.C.D. I get really consumed by something until I absorb it, then I'm done with it.

I just need to do Pac's work. I just need to. Maybe because I'm a recovering addict, I'm obsessed like that.

If you fight a hungry fighter and you look into their eyes and you're not as hungry as they are, that's when you get eaten up.

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.

Kizzy wanted it all so bad her soul leaned half out of her body hungering after it, and that was what drove the goblins wild, her soul hanging out there like an untucked shirt.

If you become so intensely curious that without knowing you cannot live, that is called seeking.

My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.

Anything that you can do a tiny bit of research about, I'll turn it into an obsession.

Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?

Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

I would kill for a cheeseburger. Honestly. If I stumbled across someone eating a cheeseburger, I would kill them for it.

And thoughts of no other man but you could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind.

Sex is just another real good drug ... and it can make a junkie out of you.

Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.

Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

I was smart enough to know it would probably make me a salable item for the paparazzi. I knew I'd have to move to a home that had a gate. But that pearl of possibility that lives in your heart when you meet somebody you want to know more about has such a different molecular density than everything else that you have to pursue it.

I bet," said Mulch, "that you would set the world on fire just to watch it burn." Opal tapped the suggestion into a small electronic notepad on her pocket computer. Thanks for that. Now, tell me everything.

Blood doesn't satisfy cravings. It magnifies them.

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.

When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things about the film, about myself, and about others. That is what I'm subconsciously looking for when shooting a film: to glimpse the enigmas of life, even if I don't resolve them, but at least to uncover them. Cinema is curiosity in the most intense meaning of the word.