Will Self

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I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.

William Woodard Self (born 1961-09-26) is an English satirical novelist, newspaper columnist and broadcaster.

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• So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.
  • Interviewed by The Independent on Sunday, April 1997. [1]

• The éminence cerise, the bolster behind the throne.
  • The Independent on Sunday, August 8, 1999
  • Of the Queen Mother.

• There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply…the person who wants to read what I have written.
  • The Guardian, May 9, 2007. [2]

I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.

• I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
  • The Guardian, May 9, 2007. [3]

• I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.
  • Quoted by The Guardian [4]

• Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso facto, you have too much power - therefore you have too much responsibility - and you're a kind of dictator.
  • The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, October 1st, 2008.

• Things are only boring if you are boring.
  • 'Room 101', BBC2, March 19th, 2001

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• Official Will Self site
• Will Self at the Internet Movie Database
• Profile at Contemporary Writers
• Guardian Books author page: Will Self
• Will Self article in Issue 08 of TATE ETC. magazine
• The Sweet Smell of Excess: Will Self, Bataille and Transgression
• A short interview: BBC
• Interview: Spike Magazine
• Audio Interview (available in Real Audio or mp3) at Salon.com
• Self interviewed by the International Necronautical Society
• Transcript of Self's encounter with Richard Littlejohn interviewed on Radio Five Live by Nicky Campbell: BBC
• Will Self on why he writes
• "The Principle"