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Life Quotes by Will Self
- Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to…
- The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower.…
- When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined…
- 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…
- I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.
- The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
- Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that…
- It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play…
- Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands…
- The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing…
- What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the…
- A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
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