- Born
- Birth nameWilliam Woodard Self
- Height6′ 5¼″ (1.97 m)
- Will Self was born on September 26, 1961 in London, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Playhouse Presents (2012), The North London Book of the Dead (2011) and Le livre des morts de Belleville (2006). He has been married to Deborah Jane Orr since 1997. They have two children. He was previously married to Katherine Sylvia Chancellor.
- SpousesDeborah Jane Orr(1997 - present) (separated, 2 children)Katherine Sylvia Chancellor(1989 - 1997) (divorced, 2 children)
- 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.
- Two sons called Alexis and Luther.
- Has 2 children with Deborah Orr, Ivan and Luther.
- His mother is from Queens, New York City.
- 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.
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