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What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

My interests and obsessions have always been so wide-ranging that I keep popping my head out of different boxes as much as possible.

My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

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.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.

The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.

I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.

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