Citas de Will Self

• Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceeding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in . . . The edit.

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  Real, Mean, Writing

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

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• 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.

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  Notebook, Memories, Mean

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

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• A creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

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  Creative, Criticism, Approval

  "Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure", www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2013.

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• Soy anarquista. Me opongo implacablemente a los sistemas jerárquicos de poder y control. También desconfío de las multitudes, ya que suelen funcionar según su mínimo común denominador. En términos de psicología evolutiva, la multitud se parece mucho a una manada de ñus en estampida.

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  Psychology, Crowds, Common

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• 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.

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  Writing, Thinking, Building Things

  "Will Self (1961- )", www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• Things are only boring if you are boring.

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  Boring, Ifs

  "Room 101" on BBC2, March 19, 2001.

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

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  Prime, Ministers, Bigs

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• Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.

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  Produce, Best Work, Working It

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• I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the right but I've often concurred, taking the view that I personify the great tolerance of Britain by consenting to being regally entertained. Besides, there is a degree of truth in the view that while the left are worthier, the right are wittier.

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  Views, Tolerance, Degrees

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

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  Healthy, Solitude, Appetite

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2007.

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• Al igual que la difuminación entre infancia y edad adulta ha producido el kidult, la extensión de la mediana edad a la vejez ha fomentado otra quimera peculiar: septuagenarios con apoptosis que lucen el depeche mode.

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  Childhood, Age, Peculiar

  "You're Looking Very Well by Lewis Wolpert - review" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2011.

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• Algunas personas tienen musas humanas; la mía es una ciudad. Siento una sorprendente ambivalencia hacia Londres, pero para bien o para mal mi trabajo depende totalmente de ella.

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  Cities, People, London

  "In the beginning" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2007.

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• Schadenfreude es tan nutritivo.

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  Schadenfreude

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• The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us.

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  Feelings, Appeals

  Will Self (2012). “The Quantity Theory of Insanity: Reissued”, p.231, A&C Black

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• I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground.

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  Attention, Pay, Facts

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

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• The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.

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  Writing, Life Is, Solitary

  "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• Why is Mr Universe always from Earth?

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  Earth, Mr Universe, Universe

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• Las vidas no se dividen en capítulos. La gente no se limita a hablar, mientras no pasa nada por su cabeza, y luego responde. Ya sabes, ninguna de estas cosas realmente suceden.

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  People, Chapters, Happens

  "Life Is Difficult But Rewarding Under This 'Umbrella'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 13, 2013.

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• Encuesta tras encuesta, los ciudadanos afirman que los mayores peligros a los que se enfrentan son, por este orden: los atentados terroristas, los accidentes aéreos y los accidentes nucleares. Y ello a pesar de que estos tres peligros combinados han matado a menos personas en el último medio siglo que los accidentes de coche en un año cualquiera.

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  Past, Order, Years

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• The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

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  Imagination, Liberty, Horizon

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• Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.

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  Wake Up, Useless, Violence

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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.

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  Writing, Firsts, Waking

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• A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing - it's been all downhill since then.

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  Beautiful, Hips, Back When

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• If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding.

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  Sports, School, Government

  "Not in my manor" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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• I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at the face in the hijab - and try to imagine the one beneath the niqab - before you depersonalise its wearer.

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  Writing, Islam, Trying

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