"People tend to think of their lives as……" — Will Self
"People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction."
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112 Quotes by Will Self
Will Self has 112 quotes on this site.
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Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.
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So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.
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I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at…
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I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
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Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the…
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If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.
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The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded,…
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Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved…
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...catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it…
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Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.
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Always carry a notebook. And I mean always.
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Don’t look back until you’ve written an entire draft...
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More Arc Quotes
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one of 140 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
— Rob Bell
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Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
— Charles Bukowski
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
— Martin Amis
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures.…
— Pema Chodron
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Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who…
— Dave Barry
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Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that…
— Merlin Stone
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When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards,…
— Hermann von Helmholtz
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Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something…
— Nancy Kress
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When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and…
— Dante Alighieri
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After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some…
— Brittany Snow
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