If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way,… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life,… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“{Rogers} sexual aim is “to convert a creature who is cool, dry, calm, articulate, independent, purposeful into a creature who is the opposite of… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“Jake did a quick run-through of women in his mind, not of the ones he had known or dealt with in the past few… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“I don't allow people of your sort to stand in my way. That's what you're leaving out of account. I'm having Christine because it's… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
