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....

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

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

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

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

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

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....

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....