Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.
I hate being ignored.
If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.
The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldn't.
I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.
We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.
My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.