Will Self Quotes
I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
Quotes to Explore
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
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With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn't the heart of the ocean hide the last–remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia?
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I love being a student, if I could, I'd stay in school forever.
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Carson Wentz, when you watch him on tape, No. 1, I just like a big guy that has athleticism.
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I live in the moment.
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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.
