Will Self Quotes

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

Will Self

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GreatImaginationHorizonLiberty

What I've been doing with my misfit, so-called acting career in film from day one on my first film, 'Spanking The Monkey', is, I've kind of made a concerted effort to hijack my acting career to turn it into film school, because I've always had the blasphemous idea of becoming a reasonably competent filmmaker in my own right some day.

Jeremy Davies

DaySchoolEffortDoingActingKind

We have to deal with the nation's debt.

Jeff Duncan

DebtNationDeal

America - it's the best and the worst.

Ronny Chieng

BestAmericaWorst

I'd like my grandkids to be able to watch PBS. But I'm not willing to borrow money from China, and make my kids have to pay the interest on that, and my grandkids, over generations, as opposed to saying to PBS, 'Look, you're going to have to raise more money from charitable contributions or from advertising.'

Mitt Romney

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I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of a story at the same time.

Mini Grey

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I'm the oldest and I've got two sisters.

Lisa Snowdon

TwoGotSistersOldest

Compared to what some of the young comics use for material today, I'm a priest.

Don Rickles

TodayYoungPriestSomeComicsUse

It's true of so many fiction writers that I much prefer the essayistic work they did, whether it's David Foster Wallace's, or John Cheever's, or Nathaniel Hawthorne's.

David Shields

WorkTrueFictionMuchDidMany

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

Chris Morris

RightSatireToolSitcom

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.

Brock Yates

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For me, writing something down was the only road out.

Anne Tyler

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I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime.

Lynn Samuels

PastThinkAthleteNothingPrime

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