Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
excited famous gets kid love passed people phone round stranger weird
I find it weird the way people get so excited about celebrity. If my friends are on the phone, their friends will say: 'Is that kid from 'Love Actually' there?' And the phone gets passed round and I have to speak to this stranger asking: 'Are you famous?' I don't know how to answer.
bbc great loved work worked
I once worked with Emma Thompson's mother, Phyllida Law. I worked with her on a BBC drama, and she was hilarious. I loved her so much, and she was great to work with.
alone candidate faith neither nor particular rational though ultimately
Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen.
life
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
funerals interested mourning people
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
eventually generally jump lazy means oriented task
I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.
itself pair shape takes
Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.
belly drank noise unto
This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds, but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast's belly.
english-author followed time
King Pellinore that time followed the questing beast.
english-scientist men poor rich unlike
For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.
asthma both frequently proper religion remember treatment
So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.
arrived brother eight months people thus time wondering younger
My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his.
hope
I do hope to bring Jane Whitefield back before too long.
series
It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job.