Will Self
Will Self
William Woodard Selfis an English novelist, journalist, political commentator and television personality...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth26 September 1961
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.
book down-and computer
I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.
writing waking firsts
I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
writing driven feels
I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.
enemy novelists usurpers
The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.
costumes actors kind
The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.
party people bears
A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.
crowds madness sometimes
Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.
real dying disease
Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.
hands phones cards
So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.
class restaurants chains
Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.
thinking people too-much
People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.
dwelling mind getting-older
Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.
enemy listening folks
Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.