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Books Quotes by Will Self
- 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…
- For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that…
- I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there because I cling…
- It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the…
- Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions -…
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- You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book,… — Paul Auster