Call it egotistical or narcissist, but I think that's what we all look for in books - the right stories that help us make sense of the world that we, on a very personal level, live in every day.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it.
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.
Most novelists are narcissistic egomaniacs who would probably fit somewhere on the CEO spectrum.
I think narcissists are endlessly watchable. The way they view the world and the way they interact within the world.
I don't have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.
An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.
Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.
I've always been a narcissist.
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