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

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 forever.

Will Self (born 1961) is an English author and journalist.  He has written numerous published works, which include novels, shorter fiction collections, novellas, and non-fiction collections.