What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy… — Will Self Copy Share Image
It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book. — Will Self Copy Share Image
We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic.… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than… — Will Self Copy Share Image
There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we… — Will Self Copy Share Image
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Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“A final word. Curious. Many years of reading many books has led me to a somewhat bizarre literary critical theory, namely that… — Will Self Copy Share Image
My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off… — Will Self Copy Share Image
For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older,… — Will Self Copy Share Image
In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels,… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“The book was thick and red. It was almost thicker than it was wide, a thickness that somehow enhanced its bookishness. It… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the… — Will Self Copy Share Image
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty. — Will Self Copy Share Image
“As my voice died away I became conscious of the voice of another woman two tables away. I couldn't hear what she was saying… — Will Self Copy Share Image
That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their… — Will Self Copy Share Image
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to… — Will Self Copy Share Image
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… — Will Self Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I explained to him - as I withdrew the cup, ripped open the sachet and dunked the tea bag - that tea was an… — Will Self Copy Share Image
There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit… — Will Self Copy Share Image
It would seem that I, who never could make much sense of physics when I was at school, have now gained a strong sense… — Will Self Copy Share Image
