Will Self

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William Self (born 26 September 1961) is an English novelist, reviewer and columnist. He received his education at the independent University College School, Christ's College Finchley and Exeter College, Oxford. Self is known for his satirical, grotesque and fantastical novels and short stories set in seemingly parallel universes. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Will+Self">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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5 total works indexed

1. Community-Acquired Pneumonia Requiring Hospitalization among U.S. Adults

   · 2015 · cited 2,180x

2. Molecular Adaptations Underlying Susceptibility and Resistance to Social Defeat in Brain Reward Regions

   · 2007 · cited 2,039x

3. Asymptotic Properties of Maximum Likelihood Estimators and Likelihood Ratio Tests under Nonstandard Conditions

   · 1987 · cited 2,001x

4. Essential Role of BDNF in the Mesolimbic Dopamine Pathway in Social Defeat Stress

   · 2006 · cited 1,868x

5. Community-Acquired Pneumonia Requiring Hospitalization among U.S. Children

   · 2015 · cited 1,586x

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Quotes

• “So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.”
• “The éminence cerise, the bolster behind the throne.”
• “There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy than 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.”
• “I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.”
• “I 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.”
• “Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso facto, you have too much power - therefore you have too much responsibility - and you're a kind of dictator.”

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