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Will Self quotes: A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism. A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
Will Self quotes: The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply. The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
Will Self quotes: The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon. The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.
Will Self quotes: If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus. If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.
Will Self quotes: I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above. I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above.
Will Self quotes: I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me. I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
Will Self quotes: Well, it's like this," began Mother, "When you die you go and live in another part of London. And that's it." ~ North London Book of the Dead Well, it's like this," began Mother, "When you die you go and live in another part of London. And that's it." ~ North London Book of the Dead
Will Self quotes: Thought is a melody, Audrey thinks, while the body is an inert mechanism of cogs, springs, chains and ratchets ... Thought is a melody, Audrey thinks, while the body is an inert mechanism of cogs, springs, chains and ratchets ...
Will Self quotes: As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification. As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.
Will Self quotes: A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing - it's been all downhill since then. A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing - it's been all downhill since then.
Will Self quotes: Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is. Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.
Will Self quotes: Things are only boring if you are boring. Things are only boring if you are boring.
Will Self quotes: Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world. Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.
Will Self quotes: Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity. Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
Will Self quotes: I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book. I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.
Will Self quotes: I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living. I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.
Will Self quotes: As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production. As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.
Will Self quotes: There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results. There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
Will Self quotes: The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us. The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us.
Will Self quotes: Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet. Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.
Will Self quotes: It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind; it is that it dulls it. It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind; it is that it dulls it.
Will Self quotes: I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development. I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development.
Will Self quotes: An English gentleman never shines his shoes, but then nor does a lazy bastard. An English gentleman never shines his shoes, but then nor does a lazy bastard.
Will Self quotes: Don't try it," he said. The mutant was reading my mind. "You, boy, you're a literary trainspotter ... Don't try it," he said. The mutant was reading my mind. "You, boy, you're a literary trainspotter ...
Will Self quotes: Why is Mr Universe always from Earth? Why is Mr Universe always from Earth?
Will Self quotes: I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape. I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.
Will Self quotes: I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this. I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this.
Will Self quotes: I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form. I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.
Will Self quotes: A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating. A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.
Will Self quotes: Dan slept throughout - but a man who sleeps with his head lying on a phone table can never really sleep with a clean conscience Dan slept throughout - but a man who sleeps with his head lying on a phone table can never really sleep with a clean conscience
Will Self quotes: A funny yet interesting read, Will Self knowa his stuff and must do a lot of deep research. A funny yet interesting read, Will Self knowa his stuff and must do a lot of deep research.
Will Self quotes: I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that. I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.
Will Self quotes: So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies. So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.
Will Self quotes: What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo! What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!
Will Self quotes: People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction. People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.
Will Self quotes: I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes. I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.
Will Self quotes: The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well. The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.
Will Self quotes: Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing. Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.
Will Self quotes: Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.
Will Self quotes: As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid. As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
Will Self quotes: Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's. Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's.
Will Self quotes: I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer. I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
Will Self quotes: The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper. The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.
Will Self quotes: Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants. Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.
Will Self quotes: Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books. Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.
Will Self quotes: Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak. Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.
Will Self quotes: As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence. As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.
Will Self quotes: There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success. There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.
Will Self quotes: Who'd want to be a modernist writer in the English-speaking world? Who'd want to be a modernist writer in the English-speaking world?
Will Self quotes: It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves. It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.
Will Self quotes: The only circumstances in which I would write a roman a clef would be if I'd lost my fucking car keys. The only circumstances in which I would write a roman a clef would be if I'd lost my fucking car keys.
Will Self quotes: Schadenfreude is so nutritious. Schadenfreude is so nutritious.

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