Will Johnson
Will Johnson
real eye home
I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of Private Eye and a latte.
writing two done
I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
dull telling-the-truth trouble
If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
children teenager my-children
I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.
ham salad mayonnaise
In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.
self over-you chalk
It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
naughty attention courses
Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
want magazines pantheon
I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
littles magazines care
The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.
thinking self talking
People always say theres no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think theyre right, because it seems self-evident: nobodys going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybodys talking about.
hurt pain mind
I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
thinking yellow hair
Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.
mean bored half
Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.
boring
Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.