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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 98 quotes by Will Self Website www.will-self.com William Woodard "Will" Self (born 26 September 1961) is an English author, journalist and television personality. Self is the author of ten novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas and five collections of non-fiction writing. His work has been translated into 22 languages, and his novel Umbrella was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His fiction is known for being satirical, grotesque, and... Read full biography of Will Self → 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Ctrl → You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio. On a good... → 0 I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an... → 0 Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry that has been cut... → 0 Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply... → 0 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... → 0 I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate... → 0 Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of... → 0 In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary... → 0 One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd - the nerd is out and proud, and while she may... → 0 Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these... → 0 Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books. 0 There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success. 0 In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents.... → 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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