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> [Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceeding day.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-self/don-t-look-back-until-you-ve-written-an-entire-draft-just-begin-each/)

[Will Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-self/)

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> [Don’t look back until you’ve written an entire draft...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-self/don-t-look-back-until-you-ve-written-an-entire-draft/)

[Will Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-self/)

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> [“Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-self/don-t-look-back-until-you-ve-written-an-entire-draft-just-begin-each-2/)

[Will Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-self/)

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## Other authors on Draft

## More by Will Self

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-self/as-for-critical-writing-about-modernism-its-moments-of-lucidity-are/)

[Will Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-self/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-self/as-my-voice-died-away-i-became-conscious-of-the-voice-of-another/)

[Will Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-self/)

> [That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-self/that-tertiary-education-is-under-a-sustained-assault-by-a-political/)

[Will Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-self/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-self/i-m-an-anarchist-i-m-implacably-opposed-to-heirarchical-systems-of/)

[Will Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-self/)

> [What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-self/what-fiction-offers-us-is-an-intimacy-shorn-of-the-messy/)

[Will Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-self/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-self/i-d-rather-fiddle-with-my-phone-for-precious-seconds-than-neglect-an/)

[Will Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-self/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-self/i-m-very-happy-for-whatever-plaudits-might-come-the-way-of-my-work/)

[Will Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-self/)

> [As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-self/as-a-writer-i-m-not-convinced-that-we-are-the-best-equipped-to/)

[Will Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-self/)

> [“I explained to him - as I withdrew the cup, ripped open the sachet and dunked the tea bag - that tea was an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-self/i-explained-to-him-as-i-withdrew-the-cup-ripped-open-the-sachet-and/)

[Will Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-self/)

> [There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-self/there-is-something-mysteriously-powerful-that-can-happen-when-young/)

[Will Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-self/)

> [It would seem that I, who never could make much sense of physics when I was at school, have now gained a strong sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-self/it-would-seem-that-i-who-never-could-make-much-sense-of-physics-when/)

[Will Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-self/)

> [Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-self/drug-use-and-procrastination-often-go-hand-in-tourniquet/)

[Will Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-self/)

> [“…with the morbid realisation that his sexual being was a dull thing, a lifeless thing, a mass-produced marionette with chipped paint and fraying strings”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-self/with-the-morbid-realisation-that-his-sexual-being-was-a-dull-thing-a/)

[Will Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-self/)

> [A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-self/a-creative-life-cannot-be-sustained-by-approval-any-more-than-it-can/)

[Will Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-self/)

> [I don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and journalistic work - and nor will I in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-self/i-don-t-think-in-terms-of-that-bizarre-tautology-value-for-money-in/)

[Will Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-self/)

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