You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how successful and publicly lauded you become. It is intrinsic to the real business of writing and should be cherished.
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Will Self
Novelist, essayist and journalist
United Kingdom · b. 1961
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English novelist and journalist whose books include Great Apes, How the Dead Live, Umbrella and the essay collection Junk Mail. He has been a professor of contemporary thought at Brunel University London.
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