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Writer Quotes by Will Self
- I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
- What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence…
- The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower.…
- As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.
- It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.
- The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.
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