Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were on TV a lot, and they were allowed to misbehave a lot.
I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
There're so many great writers out there who aren't getting the exposure they deserve.
But I'm guessing every actor is insecure.
No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
People don't understand how much influence they can actually have on a writer, how much a writer's feelings can be hurt, how much they can deflect his course when they raise their voices like they did over highly personal books like 'Panama' or 'Bullet Park.'
There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf.
All actors are incredibly insecure.
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.