Will Self Quotes

The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet to settle like a miasma of standardization on the English literary scene. But it's beginning to happen.

Will Self

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BeginningWritingAmericanLiterature

Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.

Jim Ramstad

YearTaxOutRecordsHoursBillion

The Depression did more to me than being a little Lebanese kid did.

Joe Jamail

DepressionMeMoreKidLittleBeing

In a lot of ways, the real learning at RISD happened after-hours when you're working side by side with your colleagues.

Joe Gebbia

LearningColleaguesYouRealSide

When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha!

Jessica Valenti

BookProfessionalismBelievingRun

It was as a mother that I needed my mother back, and I needed to conjure her anew and think about what she would have counselled and what she would have given.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

MotherThinkBackSheHerWould

Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they'll never get to do that but just by the virtue of having said it out loud, I think there's some power in that.

John Lee Hancock

PowerThinkSaidSayVirtueNever

People turn off the news, stop reading in-depth magazine articles - especially young people. Look at the increasing reluctance of young people to vote. I think a lot of that is directly - you can lay it at the feet of these negative campaigns and relentless attack ads.

John Hickenlooper

PeopleNegativeReadingFeetThink

Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.

Robert Mugabe

WillNeverAgainZimbabweColony

I do a lot of ceramics.

Jeff Bridges

Lot

Strangely enough, my favorite airport is Logan Airport in Boston - but largely for sentimental reasons. My first real summer job was working as a journeyman for the airport's resident maintenance crew - a small army of union electricians, plumbers, and carpenters.

Amor Towles

JobSmallArmyEnoughSummerBoston

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Moliere

PatienceWisdomBestManWiseHim

Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.

Diane Lane

RealityTelevisionHideKindSeen

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