Will Self Quotes

September 26, 1961

William Woodard Self (born 26 September 1961) is an English satirical novelist, newspaper columnist and broadcaster.

I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development.

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So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.

Will Self
— Interviewed by The Independent on Sunday, April 1997. [1]

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The éminence cerise, the bolster behind the throne.

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— The Independent on Sunday, August 8, 1999
— Of the Queen Mother.

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There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply…the person who wants to read what I have written.

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— The Guardian, May 9, 2007. [2]

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I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.

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— The Guardian, May 9, 2007. [3]

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I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.

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— Quoted by The Guardian [4]

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Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso facto, you have too much power - therefore you have too much responsibility - and you're a kind of dictator.

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— The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, October 1st, 2008.

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Things are only boring if you are boring.

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— 'Room 101', BBC2, March 19th, 2001

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I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.

Will Self
— Feeding Frenzy (2001)

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