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My 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.

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Will Self
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: September 26
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
West London Infirmary
William Woodard Self
Bigs
Novels
Two
Throwing
Character
Critical
Riffs
Ideas
Tend
Fission
Come
Characters
Tropes
Mass
Fusion
Creating
Particles
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Hundreds

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A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.
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