I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.
I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly.
I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that back. It's soul-draining.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
I'm not a sentimental guy.
I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out.
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.