Will Self Quotes
Top 52 wise famous quotes and sayings by Will Self
Will Self Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.
I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above.
I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
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
Thought is a melody, Audrey thinks, while the body is an inert mechanism of cogs, springs, chains and ratchets ...
As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.
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.
Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.
Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.
There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
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.
I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development.
Don't try it," he said. The mutant was reading my mind. "You, boy, you're a literary trainspotter ...
I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.
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 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.
Dan slept throughout - but a man who sleeps with his head lying on a phone table can never really sleep with a clean conscience
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.
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.
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!
I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.
The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.
Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.
Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.
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.
As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.
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.