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Dennis Palumbo
Dennis Palumbo, M.A. and MFT, is a writer and licensed psychotherapist in private practice, specializing in creative issues. He is the author of Writing from the Inside Out as well as a new collection of mystery short stories, From Crime to Crime. Formerly a Hollywood screenwriter, his credits include the feature film, My Favorite Year, for which he was nominated for a WGA award for Best Screenplay.
Published on 09/18/2008

And so
creative people tend to make the
audience, a studio, their agent into a parent figure that they have to
constantly appease or impress to maintain the connection, the emotional
tie... You kind of do and you don’t [have to have a really big ego]... A friend of mine said, talking about writers, they’re egomaniacs with low
self-esteem.