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Will Self
8 quotes
“So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.”
Will Self (born 1961) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed by The Independent on Sunday (April 1997).
“The éminence cerise, the bolster behind the throne.”
Will Self (born 1961) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Independent on Sunday (8 August 1999).
“Things are only boring if you are boring.”
Will Self (born 1961) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Room 101 (BBC Two, 19 March 2001).
“There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy than connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply…the person who wants to read what I have written.”
Will Self (born 1961) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Guardian (9 May 2007).
“I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.”
Will Self (born 1961) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Guardian (9 May 2007)
“I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.”
Will Self (born 1961) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Will Self (1961- )", The Guardian (22 July 2008)
“Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso facto, you have too much power - therefore you have too much responsibility - and you're a kind of dictator.”
Will Self (born 1961) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Moral Maze (BBC Radio 4, 1 October 2008).
“[Referring to Tony Blair] The Emperor has been ferried from Potemkin village to Potemkin hospital, and before he arrives a rigged rent-a-crowd of "ordinary people" are brought in to wave little flags. Hell - he hasn't even travelled on a bus, but swooped in by helicopter. There's no longer a proper press corps to speak of, but instead journalists have been "embedded", much in the same way that they were with the army in Iraq. The analogy says it all, because undoubtedly the cadres were hoping that these trusties would begin to sympathise with the man upon whom their jobs depended - just as the hacks did in Iraq.”
Will Self (born 1961) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Psychic Geography 82 Fear and loathing on the Election trail", The Independent Magazine (30 April 2005).