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Will Self Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: September 26, 1961

Topics

Business Best Go Understand Writer

I don't put labels on myself.

Myself Labels Put

Coming from a different perspective on a society is really interesting. I love the Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Phantom Thread,' and that's a version of Britishness and Englishness made by an American.

Love Perspective Society American

When I was 19, I did an internship in Los Angeles and lived with a friend of mine in the Valley.

Friend Los Angeles Lived Valley Mine

In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we're segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state of change.

John Van Hamersveld

Change Future People Places Digital

I remember working with a guy named Andrew Braccia at Yahoo, and Yahoo was the company that bought Flickr. Everyone on his team was hard working and reliable, did what they said they were going to do, on top of everything, and seemed to be operating at this level of productivity and effectiveness that I found difficult to manage to.

Stewart Butterfield

Team Remember Said Difficult Top

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Life Good Reading Good Life Living

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Age Men Old Age Slow Young Forget

I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on on the outside!

Eyes Walk Hell Inside Outside Kid

You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.

Donald G. Mitchell

College Fly Grow You Grow Up Own

I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe.

Feel Want Never Safe Playing

You need ego but mine is not blinding.

Christian Lacroix

Ego You Need Mine Blinding

I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

Luck Book Believe Wrong Worst Sales

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