Will Self
Will Self
William Woodard Selfis an English novelist, journalist, political commentator and television personality...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth26 September 1961
schadenfreude
Schadenfreude is so nutritious.
earth mr-universe universe
Why is Mr Universe always from Earth?
writing thinking people
The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile.
procrastination hands drug-use
Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.
errors anxiety needs
With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.
mother moving people
Mother sighed with exasperation. "Look, there aren't any "people in charge of death". When you die you move to another part of London, that's all there is to it. Period.
ifs seventies eighty
If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.
race class age
Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.
age comfort savagery
It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.
lust conviction epileptics
Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.
vision harder wiser
Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's.
feelings roles television
What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the other supplies facts, and the British are traditionally empiricists so they/we have a resistance to theory and to theoreticians playing too prominent a role in public life.
fall writing pages
To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.
past land anxiety
The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.