So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.
Will SelfThe éminence cerise, the bolster behind the throne.
Will SelfThere 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.
Will SelfI have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
Will SelfI 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.
Will SelfThings are only boring if you are boring.
Will SelfI make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.
Will Self