Will Self Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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.

  Will Self

  Life, Book, Writing

  "Will Self's rules for writers" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

• I am a regular if not exactly enthusiastic patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there because I cling to the belief that it's important to maintain those businesses which put a human face on the exchange of money for goods and services.

  Will Self

  Book, Important, Trying

  "The Essential David Shrigley" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2010.

• It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.

  Will Self

  Book, Ideas, Mind

  "Tails of the unexpected" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2009.

• Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.

  Will Self

  Jobs, Book, People

  "Will Self considers the Coen brothers". www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2011.

• We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic. I accept that fact. My house has thousands of books in it, and I've started to look at them completely differently. They now seem to me to be like antiquarian objects. Their use value has become negligible to me because I'm perfectly happy to read on an e-reader.

  Will Self

  Book, House, Important

  "Charles Ray". Interview with Will Self, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 21, 2013.

• I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

  Will Self

  Book, Down And, Computer

  "Writers' rooms: Will Self". www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2007.

• For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that there aren't that many books left for me to write, so I've become determined that they should be the fictive equivalent of ripping the damn corset off altogether and chucking it on the fire.

  Will Self

  Book, Writing, Fire

  "Will Self: modernism and me" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2012.

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