I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it goes even less far when I'm writing my own.
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
As someone responsible for my own fair share of marketing stunts, I am suspicious and cynical - I'll disclose that right up front.
My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past, was once criticised by a disgruntled fan as 'fantasy for people who don't read fantasy.'
For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
In my own life, I have found grief to be enormously distorting, particularly if it's sudden or extreme in nature.
I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.
I'm not someone who has had to deal with much personal drama outside of the usual: growing up with parents who hated each other, two marriages and divorces of my own. There was the cancer thing, too.
I started off with making personal donations and eventually set up my own foundation, VTCY Foundation, now known as Better Malaysia Foundation. My contributions are also made through companies that I own.
At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
I set up my own trading center in my Cabot dorm room... with my computer, my fax machine, and my telephone.
From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
I have to say, self-servingly, I downloaded my own comics. I downloaded 'Batman: Hush.'
My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.
Personally, I'm a simple dresser. I usually buy my own clothes. Jeans, T-shirts, summer dresses and track pants. Whenever I get the time or see a shop that catches my fancy, I buy something.
Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.
When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.
