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Will Self Quotes

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is Picture Quote #1

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well Picture Quote #1

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The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon Picture Quote #1

The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply Picture Quote #1

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results Picture Quote #1

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! Picture Quote #1

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

Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world Picture Quote #1

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A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself Picture Quote #1

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever Picture Quote #1

As for critical writing about modernism, it's moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of it's subject's unabashed difficulty Picture Quote #1

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity Picture Quote #1

I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom Picture Quote #1

I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y in view - whether it's a reader, a prize or a sale Picture Quote #1

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In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for Picture Quote #1

It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience Picture Quote #1

Many of my works fall into the category of 'Zeitgeist novels'. Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future Picture Quote #1

Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent Picture Quote #1

The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing company. I even had a Ford Sierra! Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality Picture Quote #1

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism Picture Quote #1

Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life Picture Quote #1

The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile Picture Quote #1

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing Picture Quote #1

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I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book (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 (Will Self Quotes) People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction (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 (Will Self Quotes) Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is (Will Self Quotes) The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well (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 (Will Self Quotes) The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply (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 (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! (Will Self Quotes) Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of it's own superfluity (Will Self Quotes) Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world (Will Self Quotes) A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself (Will Self Quotes) Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever (Will Self Quotes) As for critical writing about modernism, it's moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of it's subject's unabashed difficulty (Will Self Quotes) I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity (Will Self Quotes) I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom (Will Self Quotes) I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y in view - whether it's a reader, a prize or a sale (Will Self Quotes) In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for (Will Self Quotes) It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience (Will Self Quotes) Many of my works fall into the category of 'Zeitgeist novels'. Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future (Will Self Quotes) Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent (Will Self Quotes) The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing company. I even had a Ford Sierra! (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 (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 (Will Self Quotes) Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality (Will Self Quotes) A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism (Will Self Quotes) Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life (Will Self Quotes) The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile (Will Self Quotes) Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing (Will Self Quotes)

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