Will Self Quotes

The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.

Will Self

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GreatnessCoolThinkAmericanKind

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

TimeJealousyJealousDevilMad

Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

John Lydon

GoodMyselfWantOthersHonestFull

My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.

Alton Brown

GoodFeelingNeverAlwaysCommittee

Barack Obama, he just sits out. He sits back; he criticizes everybody. He's got his professorial attitude, real condescending, as if he's got all the answers.

Steve Scalise

AttitudeBackRealAnswersOutJust

Questions matter. In business, remarkable performers are brilliant at getting to the right question: the one that speeds them to the place they need to get to and offers them the missing piece they need to find.

Robin S. Sharma

BusinessQuestionsFindPlaceMatter

Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read.

Monica Ali

GoodCharacterStoryDrivingTell

I absolutely don't write for women - far, far from it. It's so not what I want to do. Some of the writers, who have helped out at the beginning and end of the process - they're all men - have suggested quite feminine subjects they want me to explore. And I'm always, simply, 'No.' I don't want to do diets, don't want to. I just can't do it.

Miranda Hart

WomenMenBeginningMeProcessEnd

We were all such odd characters, even though we were a really functional family, in a way, as eccentric and crazy as we were. And it was such a wonderful feeling amongst us of being a family almost. We were 'The Addams Family!'

Christopher Lloyd

FamilyCrazyFeelingWayWonderful

I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.

Chris Martin

Meant To BeKnowBeingFineLabel

There are going to be good times and bad times, but lighten up.

Chris Pine

GoodGood TimesBadBad TimesUp

I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.

Anne Carson

AcceptancePeopleWritingThinkEdge

It often looks like an actor's had a big break out of nowhere, but in reality, they've been working their way up, little by little, for a while.

Ashley Madekwe

RealityLooksActorWayOutBreak

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