"The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be……" — Will Self
"The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of meetings between people. It is profoundly intimate in reaching into the psyche of another, at the same time as being devoid of social characteristics, cultural characteristics, economic characteristics."
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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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The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.
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It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this…
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I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the…
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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and…
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When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining…
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us…
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Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.
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