Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.
Will SelfI enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.
Will SelfI'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.
Will SelfMy novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other particles, riffs, tropes and characters.
Will Self