4 Will Self Quotes on Writing

Will Self quotes on writing

3. There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that 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.

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

5. 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.

6. All my work is highly personal; it's more personal than me. You know, reading my books is having a far more intimate relationship with me than having a relationship with me.