In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. …

- Will Self

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…

- Will Self

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

- Will Self

I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to the…

- 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 cr…

- Will Self

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.

- Will Self

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.

- Will Self

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

- Will Self

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

- Will Self