I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.
Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
I try not to take myself too seriously, but I do take my work seriously.
It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.
I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.
I don't take myself seriously. Others should take me seriously, I don't.
While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren't taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.
It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.
I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.
I take the work seriously. Which is why I always swing for the fences whenever I voice a character. But that said, I don't take myself all that seriously.