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Work Quotes by Will Self
- Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.
- Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has…
- This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do…
- 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…
- The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.
- 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…
- I don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and journalistic work - and nor will I in my…
- 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 in…
- 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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- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon