Will Self Quotes
September 26, 1961
More Will Self Quotes
So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.
Will Self— Interviewed by The Independent on Sunday, April 1997. [1]
The éminence cerise, the bolster behind the throne.
Will Self— The Independent on Sunday, August 8, 1999
— Of the Queen Mother.
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.
Will Self— The Guardian, May 9, 2007. [2]
I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
Will Self— The Guardian, May 9, 2007. [3]
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.
Will Self— Quoted by The Guardian [4]
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.
Will Self— The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, October 1st, 2008.
Things are only boring if you are boring.
Will Self— 'Room 101', BBC2, March 19th, 2001
I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.
Will Self— Feeding Frenzy (2001)
