Will Self
Will Self
William Woodard Selfis an English novelist, journalist, political commentator and television personality...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth26 September 1961
flip sides results
There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
crowds comfort strange
Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals - as Marx averred - is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he.
party people bears
A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.
bathroom fantasy fantasy-life
I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.
good-night goodnight fall
You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio. On a good night, I'll push the frail barque of my psyche off into the waters of Lethe accompanied by the midnight newsreader - on a bad one, it's the shipping forecast.
notebook mean
Always carry a notebook. And I mean always.
writing people fiction
The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of meetings between people. It is profoundly intimate in reaching into the psyche of another, at the same time as being devoid of social characteristics, cultural characteristics, economic characteristics.
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.
produce best-work working-it
Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.
ifs seventies eighty
If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.
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.
procrastination hands drug-use
Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.
closer consistent last personal reasons statements stay visited week
What Micah and I visited about should stay between Micah and myself. What he said was consistent with his statements last week (about personal reasons to play closer to home).
coming referring rick stopped sure three
There are only three of us in the race, and I am not sure what Rick is referring to. But that is not coming from this campaign. If I find out that it does, it will be stopped immediately, because that is not the way that we operate.