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A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing - it's been all downhill since then.

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Will Self
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: September 26
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Science Fiction Writer
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West London Infirmary
William Woodard Self
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Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceeding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in . . . The edit.
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Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.
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A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.
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I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development.
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The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.
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You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio. On a good night, I'll push the frail barque of my psyche off into the waters of Lethe accompanied by the midnight newsreader - on a bad one, it's the shipping forecast.
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The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.
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Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.
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If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.
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I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
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A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
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It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind it is that it dulls it.
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...catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion of foetal ontogeny, in which the phenotype passes through previous fashion stages? Soon there will be gaiters and gloves...I will probably die, he thinks, clad in animal skins.
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Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.
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I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom.
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People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.
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I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.
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Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it.
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Always carry a notebook. And I mean always.
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Many of my works fall into the category of Zeitgeist novels. Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future.
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