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Write 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…
- 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 prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
- 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.
- 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 always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else…
- I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at…
- 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…
- To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and…
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