A Quote by Daphne du Maurier

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Daphne du Maurier

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Autobiography Self

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Daphne du Maurier
English - Novelist
May 13, 1907 - April 19, 1989

Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

Craig Venter

I bristle at the implication that only with the help of a Big Six editor does a novel lose its self-indulgent aspects. Before the advent of self-publishing, there were plenty of self-indulgent novels on the shelves.

Jennifer Armintrout

I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are you totally deluded in sitting down at a desk every day and trying to write something? Is it self-indulgent, or might it possibly lead to something worthwhile? At a certain point I decided to keep on because I felt like the work was getting better, and I was taking great pleasure in that.

Ben Fountain

At the risk of saying you should make a self-indulgent film for your first movie: you should make a self-indulgent film for your first movie.

Mark Duplass

Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue.

Hafez

Creativity is very self-indulgent.

Nicolas Winding Refn

I am pretty self-indulgent.

Francesca Annis

As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world. We're prideful, only showing what we deem as perfect or what we think our peers will respect.

Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent.

Nicolas Winding Refn

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joseph Joubert

It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the '60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive.

Michael Medved

One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person.

Winona Ryder

Societies don't become less self-indulgent; people do.

Mal Fletcher

There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It’s not a tool to understand myself.