Actor Quote by Will Self

“If the characters of a fictional work can be readers or spectators, we, its readers or spectators, can be fictions.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is…

— Bette Davis

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in…

— Anthony Burgess

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

— Joey Skaggs

“he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a sense of…

— Renata Adler

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. My prayer was to be immortalized by unintelligent gibbons on a satirical Web…

— Oscar Wilde

The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we regard as…

— Jasper Fforde

Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

— Jude Morgan

Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples. But August…

— Daniel J. Sullivan

My way of dealing with not really fitting in at my very crappy New England high school and junior high was to write sketch…

— Susanna Fogel

We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able…

— Barack Obama

“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana