English speaking Quote by Will Self Download Open image “Who'd want to be a modernist writer in the English-speaking world?” — Will Self ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare English speaking Modernist Want World Writer Writing
If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
I still prefer going to the classical writers, the modernists and the nineteenth century writers. Much of what has been done since then has… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature. — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“T. S. Eliot and Jean-Paul Sartre, dissimilar enough as thinkers, both tend to undervalue prose and to deny it any imaginative function. Poetry is the creation of linguistic quasi-things; prose is for explanation and exposition, it is essentially didactic, documentary, informative. Prose is ideally transparent; it is only faute de mieux written in words. The influential modern stylist is Hemingway.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share
The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.' — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As an author… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty. — Will Self Copy Share Image
“As my voice died away I became conscious of the voice of another woman two tables away. I couldn't hear what she was saying… — Will Self Copy Share Image
That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their… — Will Self Copy Share Image
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to… — Will Self Copy Share Image
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… — Will Self Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production. — Will Self Copy Share Image
“I explained to him - as I withdrew the cup, ripped open the sachet and dunked the tea bag - that tea was an… — Will Self Copy Share Image
There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit… — Will Self Copy Share Image
It would seem that I, who never could make much sense of physics when I was at school, have now gained a strong sense… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“Academic philosophers in the English speaking world still regard philosophy as Locke defined it in the 17th century, as “the handmaiden of the sciences”:… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director. — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
There were a lot of unique challenges in producing the film, such as the logistical issues inherent in producing a long-term verite film in… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
The only way I thought I could do a greatest hits album is to do it in a prison where they have no f**king… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures - Ireland, England,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress. — Hani Furstenberg Copy Share Image
James Joyce's English was based on the rhythm of the Irish language. He wrote things that shocked English language speakers but he was thinking… — Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh Copy Share Image
