When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.
I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.
Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.
I became a writer in spite of my environments.
You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.
Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.
I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.