I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
Writers interest me for their style, their obsessions, the ways in which they approach the world.
One of my pet peeves, one of my obsessions, is litter.
In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.
Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.
I've always loved 'Wicked.' It's one of my little obsessions.
All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
We read and remember certain writers because they offer distinctive voices and perspectives, because they've given themselves over completely and passionately to their obsessions while vigorously ignoring everything else.
