"You can always spot a 'television personality', even……" — Will Self
"You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces."
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112 Quotes by Will Self
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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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If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.
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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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