Excited Quote by Bill Ayers Download Open image “Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.” — Bill Ayers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Excited Memoir Narcissism Writing
One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
For better or worse, I seem to gravitate toward writing about something or someone else, then have my own self shove its way into… — Lucas Mann Copy Share Image
The WRITER of memoir gets incoming weirdness in very odd ways. I was recently talking to a memoir writer whose work just went meteoric - but some of the comments and communications and gestures she gets in the wake of that success are stunningly and atrociously over-personal, as if suddenly people feel like they know her and her life intimately,… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share
I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“This narrative is the basis for the everyday narcissism that almost everyone shares. Why is this a form of narcissism? Because, as a result of the lifelong training I’ve just described, almost all of us live by the following unconscious (and false) principles: •I am responsible for how other people feel and behave. Therefore, I experience myself as all-powerful. •I… — Nancy Van Dyken Copy Share
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is that many… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia.… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia.… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being wheeled by her son waving a big American flag, and then seeing a guy with his baby in his arms saying, "I didn't want her to miss tonight! I wanted to be able to tell her!"… — Bill Ayers Copy Share
I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
One of the great crimes of the Bloomberg/Klein administration [in New York City] is that they've removed themselves from communities, as if communities have… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I'm wary of government. Part of [the Tea Party] impulse is to dislike and be worried about the rich. I'm that way too. So… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I'd been arrested many times by then. I'd been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years [from 1965 till 1968]. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school. Five years later, a quarter of us were in SDS, in Students for Democratic Society. Not because we were particularly chosen or because we were as I say, we were lucky but we were mainly luckily to grow… — Bill Ayers Copy Share
[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I feel excited about getting older as an actress, too. I think there are some amazing opportunities around the corner and I don't need… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that get… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I've been in real estate for a long time and I always try to stay on the edge. I'm really excited about the partnership… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
I've been so lucky with the people I've worked with, but I'm such a fan girl. When I moved to London at 16, I… — Sheridan Smith Copy Share Image
I am excited to partner with Aeropostale for my very own collection. It was a great experience to be able to work with them.… — Bethany Mota Copy Share Image
'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for the fans… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get. — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
I'm really excited about anything that is able to address the really big markets, so anything that's universally appealing. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Suddenly, I'm in movies that people are excited about, and that is a nice change. — Josh Brolin Copy Share Image
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