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Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism in…

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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to…
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…
Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'…
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about…
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an…
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

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Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse… — Cyril Connolly
The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple… — Newt Gingrich
As you probably know, I'm often accused of intellectual exhibitionism and all forms of elitism. Although I can understand this point of… — Peter Greenaway
I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand. — Jason Patric
Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of… — David Foster Wallace
Jazz should be much less about stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content. — Booker Little
Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its… — Stephen Bayley
All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens… — Pedro Almodovar
If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism. — Mason Cooley
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. — Laurence Olivier
The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism. — Orson Welles
You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to… — Philip Roth

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