Quotes by Will Self

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A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism. — Will Self
Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christm — Will Self
Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding — Will Self
You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Re — Will Self
The postgrad at least knew enough to know that he would never know enough, lying under the stars which hung from the ink — Will Self
Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding — Will Self
I gain nothing but pleasure from writing fiction; short stories are foreplay, novellas are heavy petting – but novels ar — Will Self
This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor — Will Self
Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our ch — Will Self
If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at th — Will Self
I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book. — Will Self
The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions be — Will Self
Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a l — Will Self
You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness — Will Self
I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in t — Will Self
If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegum — Will Self
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spec — Will Self
Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion — Will Self
Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to t — Will Self
The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present se — Will Self