Quotes by : Will Self

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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

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

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three....