Latest Will Self Quotes from Interviews

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• If you believe something, you can have a morality that means something as well. You can feel recognized as an individual within the universe; it can give meaning to who you are.

  Will Self

  Believe, Mean, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Because I was a young man so, of course, I did get into fights. The last time I actually was in a fight, in the sense of throwing punches myself, was probably when I was at college, not since 1980. But I remember being attacked quite a few times in the '80s.

  Will Self

  Fighting, College, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like William James. He's actually a pragmatist.

  Will Self

  Thinking, Pragmatists, Misreading

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I used to find myself goofed out in the street on drugs. And I had such a bad problem with addiction at the time that I didn't mind. I was dealing cocaine and shooting up a lot of cocaine. And that's not a good space to be in.

  Will Self

  Space, Addiction, Drug

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above.

  Will Self

  Thinking, Cities, Fundamentals

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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 enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.

  Will Self

  Shapes, Landscape, Enjoy

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