"A creative life cannot be sustained by approval……" — Will Self

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it… - Will Self

"A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism."

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112 Quotes by Will Self

Will Self has 112 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.
So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.
I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at…
I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the…
If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.
The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded,…
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved…
...catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it…
Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.
Always carry a notebook. And I mean always.
Don’t look back until you’ve written an entire draft...

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