Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.
People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it.
The Blood of Heroes is surely the best account to date, one that presents plenty of new insights while acting as a corrective-or at least an alternative viewpoint-to previous accounts....Donovan combines that vital blend of authoritative scholarship with the vivid writing necessary to make an oft-told tale seem fresh.
I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.
To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.
Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle.
There are many things in life that become different if you take a long look at them.
It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.
I was an insurgent. I was, you know, an outsider. And I'm not sure that I'm not better being an outsider.
In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.
I'd rather see the world from a different angle.
If I seem like a radical it's because I have seen things that others have not.
I look at this game from a different perspective.
... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.
I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's.
My mother always said, 'The best way to ruin a story is to tell the other side.'
Before you tell yourself its a different scene remember its just different from what you've seen.
I think I approach things with an outsider's perspective.
I don't know how it is for you earthlings, but where I'm from, strength is mental.
[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.
I see the world from a very specific perspective. It is how I grew up. It is what I am proud of, and I vocalize it. And for those who have not experienced my experience, it is odd, and it's not mainstream.
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in politics.
What is unusual is not always threatening. What is different is not necessarily strange.
My point of view has always been a bit more offbeat.
