David Baddiel
I might be the most unpractical person in the world.
Virtually any practical task becomes chaos within seconds of me getting near it.
Basically, out of the sphere of what I do - being a comedian/writer, and out of the sphere of football, I am incredibly uncompetitive.
I hate predicting football scores that mean a lot to me, because even though I'm an absolute materialist and don't believe in anything superstitious, I get superstitious.
I've adapted my own work a couple of times, and I've also given my novels to other people to adapt, and I do find that quite difficult.
I am a nice boy.
There are no gatekeepers in children's literature. There are children who like what you write because it's funny.
I see social media mainly just talked about as if it has just changed us technologically and in terms of data. I think it has changed absolutely everything. It has changed truth, it has changed culture. It has certainly changed the way that we relate to each other and in a very short amount of time.
My contention is even people who are living without social media are not just aware of it, they are affected by it.
For a long time, I used to think that I had a man's brain that I thought more like a man than a woman. But now I've come to realise that whatever it is I do think like, it's not like men; because men don't really think like men, they think like boys.Collection: Boys
Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade.Collection: Witty