The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.
Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.
I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.
A reader should know what he might reasonably expect under a particular label.
The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.
I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.
To be very blunt, I am not really that concerned with what labels get associated with somebody.
People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.
Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.
I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.