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Inspirational Quotes by Will Self
- I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
- If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.
- Always carry a notebook. And I mean always.
- Don’t look back until you’ve written an entire draft...
- Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these…
- It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind; it is that it dulls it.
- As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
- As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.
- I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.
- I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.
- 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.
- Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.
- The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.
- The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.
- Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
- 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…
- Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento