“My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.” HumansCultureFatherMy OwnHuman BeingsSonHusbandDegreesMalesNotionSubversiveFather Husband Author:Mark Leyner
“The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.” PeopleCharacterMy OwnKnownPersonalityDegreesAspectCombinationDirtyDragonsChicagoGood FriendPuppetsIndianapolisMy Own Personality Author:William Jackson
“My opinion is that we have, in the person of Da Free John, a Spiritual Master and religious genius of the ultimate degree. I assure you I do not mean that lightly. I am not tossing out high-powered phrases to 'hype' the works of Da Free John. I am simply offering to you my own considered opinion: Da Free John's teaching is, I believe, unsurpassed by that of any other spiritual Hero, of any period, of any place, of any time, of any persuasion.” BelieveMeanPersonsSpiritualI BelieveReligiousMy OwnOpinionTeachingMastersGeniusHeroPeriodsDegreesUltimatePhrasesOfferingPersuasionHypeSpiritual Masters Author:Ken Wilber
“I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.” ThinkingWritingChildrenMadeBookSelfMy OwnCompanySolitudeDegreesGladSelf RelianceRelianceConditioningWriting A BookOnly Child Author:Alan Hollinghurst
“I had a lot of issues with the genre, and I probably even had issues with the whole idea of genre. I was coming into it with a certain degree of outsider attitude, and I didn't have a long-term plan. But I think the way it's worked out, it's sort of warped into what I suppose you could say is my own genre. If people like my books, they have some idea of what the next one will be like.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayLongBookIdeasWholeCertainNextTermMy OwnAttitudeIssuesPlansDegreesGenreLong TermOutsidersThe Next One Author:William Gibson
“A lot of people ask, "What do you pull on in your own life from your character?" In all honesty, it's not something that really works that way for me. I tend to look at these things as an imaginative process and a challenge of imagination and empathy, to some degree. I get much more out of meeting people who have lived these lives than I do digging around in my own limited experiences.” PeopleWayLooksCharacterAsksProcessImaginationChallengesMy OwnHonestyDegreesEmpathyMeetingsImaginativeDigging Author:Edward Norton
“I don't really marinate in anybody's album because I don't really want to sound like anybody else when I put my album out. So I'd rather not even be tempted to listen to a bunch of other stuff with any degree of emersion in it, cause I just don't want to sound like anything else, so I kinda focus on my own music.” WantCausesStuffSoundMy OwnFocusDegreesAlbumsBunchTempted Author:John Legend
“I would like to say that I have software that allows me to model worlds to a high degree of scientific plausibility. I'd also like to be six foot two and fifteen years into my reign as Emperor of Europa. The simple truth is that past the character's name and a long history of making my own body cover distances, I did very little in the way of targeted research.” WorldWayYearsLittlesLongTwoCharacterBodyPastNamesMy OwnSimpleFeetTruth IsDegreesSixModelsResearchDistanceSoftwareFifteenReignEmperorFifteen YearsSimple Truths Author:Robert Reed