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From Quotes by Will Self
- In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and…
- My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other…
- When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined…
- 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.
- From time to time, as if heaven-sent to annoy, someone will ask me if I'm self-disciplined when it comes to my work. I usually look…
- Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far…
- Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those…
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