Will Self Quotes

The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once secure...

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gal...

You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own...

Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long wa...

This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm ...

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitti...

If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely...

The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increas...

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, e...

Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms the...

I gain nothing but pleasure from writing fiction; short stories are foreplay, novellas are heavy pet...

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to fi...

Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you...

I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, t...

The postgrad at least knew enough to know that he would never know enough, lying under the stars whi...

Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you...

Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of...

A funny yet interesting read, Will Self knowa his stuff and must do a lot of deep research.

For the rest, silence or good music, not much food, a lot of solitude, walks on the Heath, the time ...

But in Ward 9 the air had a real quality, it clamped itself over your face like a pad of cotton wool...

The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionaliti...

You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the dea...

Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I f...

Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever effort...