Will Self citations

“Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.”

“An English gentleman never shines his shoes, but then nor does a lazy bastard.”

“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.”

“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.”

“So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.”

“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.”

“I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.”

“The éminence cerise, the bolster behind the throne.”

“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.”

“Things are only boring if you are boring.”