Quotes by Will Self

Will Self

…catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion of foetal ontogeny, in which the phenotype passes through previous fashion stages? Soon there will be gaiters and gloves…I will probably die, he thinks, clad in animal skins.

Animal

Fashion

Thinking

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

Approval

Creative

Criticism

A party full of ‘likeable’ people doesn’t bear contemplating.

Bears

Party

People

A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing – it’s been all downhill since then.

Back When

Beautiful

Hips

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always.

Mean

Notebook

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

Mean

Memories

Notebook

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

Fluid

Ifs

Paper

As a species, we’re addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either ‘this’ or ‘that’ – how much more uncomfortable that it may well be ‘the other’.

Discrimination

May

Uncomfortable

Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.

Dwelling

Getting Older

Mind

Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness – which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They’re all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.

Consciousness

Texture

Trying

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Actors

Addiction

Age

America

Amusement

Animal

Anxiety

Apology

Approval

Art

Attention

Back When

Bears

Beautiful

Believe

Bigs

Book

Boring

Cake

Chapters

Character

Cheerful

Childhood

Class

Comfort

Common

Consciousness

Conviction

Costumes

Creative

Criticism

Crowds

Degrees

Deserve

Discrimination

Disease

Diversity

Drinking

Driven

Drug

Drug Use

Dumb

Dwelling

Dying

Eighty

Ends

Epileptics

Errors

Events

Facts

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Quotes by Will Self

Will Self

…catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion of foetal ontogeny, in which the phenotype passes through previous fashion stages? Soon there will be gaiters and gloves…I will probably die, he thinks, clad in animal skins.

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

A party full of ‘likeable’ people doesn’t bear contemplating.

A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing – it’s been all downhill since then.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

As a species, we’re addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either ‘this’ or ‘that’ – how much more uncomfortable that it may well be ‘the other’.

Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.

Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness – which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They’re all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.

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