Will Self Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

Will Self quotes and sayings page 5 (63 year old author). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 98 we have for him.

“A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.”

“I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.”

“What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!”

“I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.”

“So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.”

“The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.”

“There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.”

“Who'd want to be a modernist writer in the English-speaking world?”

“There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.”