Quotes by : Will Self

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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