120 Quotes by Colin Wilson

I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.

What I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation.

One of my main problems as far as the public is concerned is that I've always been interested in too many things, ... and if they can't typecast you as a writer on this or that, then I'm afraid you tend not to be understood at all.

The problem is everywhere. You're never going to get away from it.

What it means basically is that you're able to focus until you suddenly experience that sense that everything is good,

The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.