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I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this.

Will Self

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Will Self
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: September 26
Author
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Science Fiction Writer
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West London Infirmary
William Woodard Self
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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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Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.
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The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.
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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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So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.
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I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.
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The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.
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If you believe something, you can have a morality that means something as well. You can feel recognized as an individual within the universe it can give meaning to who you are.
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Nowadays, my mood ungoverned, I'm free to think the most outrageous things, such as: might it not be a good idea to insist that drug companies give their preparations names that tell the user what they really do?
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If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding.
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It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.
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Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.
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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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To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.
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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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Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these things actually happen.
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So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.
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Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's.
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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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The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
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