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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.

Will Self

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Will Self
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: September 26
Author
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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West London Infirmary
William Woodard Self
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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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Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.
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I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.
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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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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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I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.
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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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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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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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