Will Self Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.”

“As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.”

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

“I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.”

“Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.”

“Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.”

“People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.”

“The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.”

“The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.”

“The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.”