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William Woodard “Will” Self is an English author, journalist and television personality. Self is the author of ten novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas and five collections of non-fiction writing. His work has been translated into 22 languages, and his… 

Full Name Will Self
Net Worth $3 Million
Date Of Birth October 15, 1976
Place Of Birth London
Height 1.73 m
Profession Writer, Novelist, Journalist, Author, Screenwriter, TV Personality
Education University College School, Exeter College, Oxford, Christ’s College, Finchley
Nationality United Kingdom
Spouse Deborah Orr, Kate Chancellor
Children Alexis Self, Ivan Self, Madeleine Self, Luther Self
Parents Peter Self, Elaine Self
Siblings Jonathan Self
Nicknames William Woodard Self , Will , Self, Will , William Woodard “Will” Self
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/willselfuk
Twitter http://www.twitter.com/michellebeisner
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1107102
Awards Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, Tähtivaeltaja Award
Movies The North London Book of The Dead, Flytopia, Le Livre des morts de Belleville
TV Shows Grumpy Old Men
Quote
1 Drug addiction is hard to understand if you have no need to be anesthetized.
2 The Whole Show might be about to hit the end of the Pier.
3 [Question Time, Why can’t we have panels of Experts run the NHS, instead of it being a Political Football?] Oooh! You can’t have Experts! They’re NOT ALLOWED ANYMORE!
4 I have to say, I think the Brexiteers are living in a weird kind of: “Bring back the Birch! Bring back Bicycles! Bring back Spinsters! Bring back Two-way Family Forces Favorites!” What else are you going to bring back? Semolina?
5 [Time Magazine’s Man of the Year, Trump] These are not great Statesmen. They are grubby little opportunists.
6 [Trump] I think it’s such a paradox that Nigel Farage subscribes to the Great Man of History View when he fails so miserably in measuring up to that himself. It’s not the man, it’s what he Symbolises.
7 The wholesome social encounter of buying a book has been reduced to a click.
8 [Debate] You know what I think? I think we all just saw the Head of the Royal College of Psychiatrists do a comic turn to try and win us over.
9 [London Olympics] …boondoggle…
10 [2015 Election] Freud would have called this “The Narcissism of Small Differences”.
11 [Death of Philip S Hoffman] The thing about opiate addiction is it appropriates a rightfully medical role, I don’t mean to be trite about this, serious point, addiction comes about at the same time as the full professionalization of medicine and the elevation of medicine to our kind of modern priesthood, our kind of spiritual priesthood, so the idea that someone should appropriate this thing that only doctors are meant to do and do it to themselves is very shocking.
12 The entire Culture for which the aspirant writers are being educated is winking out of existence.
13 These MA Creative Writing Courses, I sat in with Cecilia and they went round the room with their work and asked for feedback. So I gave my feedback and Cecilia said “No, Will, this is the Positive Feedback Section” and I said “Cecilia, that WAS my Positive Feedback”…
14 Connolly once again rose to the occasion with an apothegm: “It is closing time in the Gardens of the West!”
15 Regarding drugs I say that a given drug experience might be interesting but repeating that experience over and over is pretty bloody boring.
16 I think the main difficulty people have writing long form fiction is knowing that it will never be read, which is a terrible thing.
17 [News of the World Phone Hacking Scandal] The reversion to type will also occur because people want to see Celebrities brought low or people in the Public Eye, there is a great popular appetite for that, not just laughing at peoples’ [It’s not going to change, though] It’s not going to change because it’s symptomatic of a kind of weird demagogic faux egalitarianism in our Culture, the kind of Big Brother Culture, the idea that anyone can be a Star but QED anyone can be dragged down from that pedestal as well.
18 This whole imbroglio is epiphenomenal!
19 Some of you are too young to know this, but back in the 80s authors were Gods! We were on the front of newspapers, we had groupies! It’s not like that anymore.
20 If a TARDIS is outside Space and Time, then you should be able to fit a bigger TARDIS inside a smaller TARDIS.
21 Who says language is innate? I have to learn it anew every day…
22 I’ve spent a lot of time in Bed & Breakfasts because my parents didn’t like me growing up, but didn’t have the courage to put me into care…
23 I don’t doubt people feel better on SSRIs, that’s the paradox. They are working because of their belief, and what are they believing in? A kind of scientism and the reduction of themselves to chemical units. The very opposite of a soulful and embodied existence. No wonder so many prescriptions get written.
24 When we were young it was the Balance of Payments deficit that people were worried about. The difference between the value of what we import and export. You don’t hear about that any more. What you hear about now is Consumer Demand. Consumer Demand, you could have no more telling example of what our society has become, how soulless our society has become, than that it measures its moral and spiritual health on the basis of whether it is buying enough shit.
25 [David Cameron called this Referendum] as a tactical measure. The irony is that the Tories have been hoisted by the petard of unforeseen consequences.
26 I think this [Brexit] is a highly disruptive, wrong-headed and stupid thing to do.
27 You should have an understanding for the people who feel their lives were shattered this morning.
28 I called this a few weeks ago, I could see that the pollsters were not getting to Tribal Labour who nonetheless was powerfully anti-immigration and very, very uncomfortable with what they saw as “the dilution of the British national character” and it’s them what won it, they came out and they couldn’t be reached by the pollsters, they couldn’t be called by the markets, they don’t understand these people, and Dreda’s right, this is the constituency that she’s summoned up, but they’re not the people she thinks they are, that’s the problem.[Dreda Say Mitchell: What do you mean they’re not the people..?] They’re not the people: Oh, what’s that up there in the sky! Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it’s Boris Johnson come to deliver you social justice and a more equal society!
29 There’s a great spreading middle-aged back end sitting on our politics and our economics at the moment.
30 The point about contemporary British politics is that our voting system no longer adequately represents the diversity of political opinion, either in the Labour Party or the Tory Party. The Labour Party needs to split and so do the Tories.
Fact
1 Has 2 children with present wife, a girl and a boy. The boy’s name is Ivan.
2 Two sons called Alexis and Luther.

Writer

Title Year Status Character
Flytopia 2013 Short
Death of a Government Inspector 2012 Short
Playhouse Presents 2012 TV Series by – 1 episode
The North London Book of the Dead 2011 Short short story
Le livre des morts de Belleville 2006 Short story
Underground: Letter from an Immigrant 2003 Short story

Self

Title Year Status Character
The Future of Work and Death 2016 Documentary Himself
My Worst Job 2016 TV Mini-Series Himself
Europe: The Final Debate with Jeremy Paxman 2016 TV Movie Himself (uncredited)
How to Be Bohemian with Victoria Coren Mitchell 2015 TV Mini-Series documentary
Question Time 2000-2015 TV Series Himself
The Secret World of Lewis Carroll 2015 TV Movie documentary Himself – Writer
Imagine 2014 TV Series documentary Himself – Writer
Newsnight 2014 TV Series Himself – Interviewee
This Week 2005-2013 TV Series Himself
Tales of Winter: The Art of Snow and Ice 2013 TV Movie documentary Himself
A Short History of Everything Else 2012 TV Series Himself
Ballade pour une reine 2012 TV Movie documentary
This Green and Pleasant Land: The Story of British Landscape Painting 2011 TV Movie documentary Guest
Newsnight at 30 2010 TV Movie documentary Himself
History of Now: The Story of the Noughties 2010 TV Series documentary Himself
In Confidence 2010 TV Series documentary Himself
The Noughties… Was That It? 2009 TV Movie documentary Himself
The London Perambulator 2009 Documentary Himself
The Book Quiz 2009 TV Series Himself
Shooting Stars: The Inside Story 2008 TV Movie documentary Himself
Have I Got News for You 1997-2007 TV Series Himself
Have I Got News for You: The Inevitable Internet Spin-Off 2007 TV Series short Himself
Sunday AM 2007 TV Series Himself
Comedy Lab 2007 TV Series Himself
The Secret Life of the Motorway 2007 TV Series documentary Himself – Author
Memoirs of a Cigarette 2007 TV Movie documentary Himself
The Martians and Us 2006 TV Series documentary Himself
Grumpy Old Men 2003-2006 TV Series documentary Himself
Comedy Connections 2006 TV Series documentary Himself
When Toby Met Julie 2005 TV Movie documentary Himself
Late Review 2003 TV Series Himself – Panelist
The Importance of Being Morrissey 2002 TV Movie documentary Himself
Shooting Stars 2002 TV Series Himself
Campus, le magazine de l’écrit 2001 TV Series documentary Himself
Room 101 2000 TV Series Himself
Mike Leigh: The BBC Collection – The Conversation 2000 Video documentary short Himself
The Conversation 2000 Video documentary short Himself
This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis 1999 Documentary Himself
Human, All Too Human 1999 TV Mini-Series Himself – Novelist
Ruby 1997 TV Series Himself
Sandra After Dark 1996 TV Series Himself
The Full Wax 1993 TV Series Himself

Archive Footage

Title Year Status Character
Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters – Volume 2 2005 Video Himself
Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters 2003 Video Himself
The Very Best of ‘Have I Got News for You’ 2002 Video Himself

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