Biography

Though an avid fan of digital reading, the author still prefers to write all his novels on an Olivetti Lettera 22, a manual typewriter that had once belonged to his late mother.

He has dual U.K. and U.S. Citizenship.

His father is university professor and author Peter Self.

A Consultant Psychiatrist from Essex, Dr. Lars Davidsson, once dismissed one of Will Self's Articles as "Antipsychiatric Rubbish" - the Entirity of the Good Doctor's Comment - over Facebook.

Two sons called Alexis and Luther.

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.

There's a great spreading middle-aged back end sitting on our politics and our economics at the moment.

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!

You should have an understanding for the people who feel their lives were shattered this morning.

I think this [Brexit] is a highly disruptive, wrong-headed and stupid thing to do.