"The great liberty of the fictional writer is……" — Will Self
"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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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 Fictional Quotes
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
— Paul Auster
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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than…
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In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in…
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I think TV is a medium where you can be entertained, you can be informed, you can relax and you…
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I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just…
— Scott McClanahan
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Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies,…
— Keira Knightley
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It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.
— Miranda July
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Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world
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The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with…
— Louis Theroux
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This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge.
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I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own…
— Philip K. Dick
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In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about…
— Hari Kunzru
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