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Will Self Quotes

That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian Picture Quote #1

If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding Picture Quote #1

Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren’t up to scratch Picture Quote #1

The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with... stream of consciousness, as it’s called, for emotional reasons, and the main emotional reason is verisimilitude. I mean, this is what surprises people: Life is not in the simple past Picture Quote #1

To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short Picture Quote #1

I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me Picture Quote #1

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Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one’s eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models Picture Quote #1

It would seem that I, who never could make much sense of physics when I was at school, have now gained a strong sense of Einsteinian space-time. I am free of the nimbyism of now, and feel a strong kinship with both the dead and the unborn Picture Quote #1

Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity Picture Quote #1

So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal Picture Quote #1

A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating Picture Quote #1

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves Picture Quote #1

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Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak Picture Quote #1

Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants Picture Quote #1

The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper Picture Quote #1

Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet Picture Quote #1

If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus Picture Quote #1

Don't look back until you've written an entire draft Picture Quote #1

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Things are only boring if you are boring Picture Quote #1

The éminence cerise, the bolster behind the throne Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind; it is that it dulls it Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid Picture Quote #1

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production Picture Quote #1

As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence Picture Quote #1

I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living Picture Quote #1

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That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian. (Will Self Quotes) If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding. (Will Self Quotes) Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren’t up to scratch. (Will Self Quotes) The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with... stream of consciousness, as it’s called, for emotional reasons, and the main emotional reason is verisimilitude. I mean, this is what surprises people: Life is not in the simple past. (Will Self Quotes) To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short. (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. (Will Self Quotes) Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one’s eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models. (Will Self Quotes) It would seem that I, who never could make much sense of physics when I was at school, have now gained a strong sense of Einsteinian space-time. I am free of the nimbyism of now, and feel a strong kinship with both the dead and the unborn. (Will Self Quotes) Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity. (Will Self Quotes) So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal (Will Self Quotes) A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating (Will Self Quotes) It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves (Will Self Quotes) Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak (Will Self Quotes) Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants (Will Self Quotes) The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper (Will Self Quotes) Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet (Will Self Quotes) If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus (Will Self Quotes) Don't look back until you've written an entire draft (Will Self Quotes) Things are only boring if you are boring (Will Self Quotes) The éminence cerise, the bolster behind the throne (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 (Will Self Quotes) I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer (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 (Will Self Quotes) It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind; it is that it dulls it (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 (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 (Will Self Quotes) As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid (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 (Will Self Quotes) As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence (Will Self Quotes) I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living (Will Self Quotes)

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