"There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen……" — Will Self
"There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it."
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112 Quotes by Will Self
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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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