"In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays."

-- Will Self

#Writing Quotes #Views Quotes #Play Quotes

“Life is a dangerous adventure, says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an adventure.”
“God wants to bless us where we are.”
“The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.”
“Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.”
“Art is basically entertainment,”
“The images are visual, auditory, olfactory, kinesthetic. They aren't laid down on the same tracks as thought. And sometimes, when they return to you, it is as if you feel them for the very first time. Memory lives on in the details, like the color of a room, a tone of a voice, the touch of a child, the smell of a man.”
“it used to be almost the first question (just after 'Can you type?') in the standard female job interview: 'Are you now, or have you ever, contemplated marriage, motherhood, or the violent overthrow of the U.S. government?”
“IsnÂ’t it strange some people make You feel so tired inside, Your thoughts begin to shrivel up Like leaves all brown and dried!But when youÂ’re with some other ones ItÂ’s stranger still to find Your thought as thick as fireflies All shiny in your mind!”

You may also like:

Iain Sinclair
Writer
J. G. Ballard
Novelist
Jonathan Coe
Novelist
Julie Burchill
Writer
Martin Amis
Novelist
Ralph Steadman
Cartoonist
Rod Liddle
Journalist
Salman Rushdie
Novelist
Zadie Smith
Novelist