"Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes,……" — Kingsley Amis

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• Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
• Beware of clichés. Not just the ­clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as… — Geoff Dyer
• Je me sens vraiment entre amis. (I feel that I am truly among friends.) — John F. Kennedy
• I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite… — Elizabeth Gilbert
• It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch,… — Christopher Hitchens
• Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist… — Martin Amis
• I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I… — James Herbert
• I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics… — Terry Eagleton
• The Electroshock Novelist: The Alluring Bad Boy of Literary England Has Always Been Fascinated by Britain's Dustbin Empire. Now Martin… — Sam Tanenhaus
• Amis is a force unto himself There is, quite simply, no one else like him. — Jonathan Yardley
• To discuss a Martin Amis book, you must first discuss the orchestrated release of a Martin Amis book. In London,… — Graydon Carter
• I love Martin Amis. — Maura Tierney

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