I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark... →
Taiye Selasi
I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I... →
Hubert Selby, Jr.
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden
People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?
Monica Seles
The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with... stream of consciousness, as it's... →
Will Self
From time to time, as if heaven-sent to annoy, someone will ask me if I'm self-disciplined when it comes to my work. I usually look witheringly... →
I don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and journalistic work - and nor will I in my academic... →
Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to... →
This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's... →
The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.