151 Quotes by Kingsley Amis

Time, plenty of it came to the rescue here: Kelly was to engage in self-expression. In Jake's vocabulary this was a vague term applied to activities like swearing and children's art but in the present context it evidently meant something more specific. The girl at once left her chair, sat down on one of the more affluent patches of carpet and clasped her knees.

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when it was at work and when not.

education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'"Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.

Death has this much to be said for it:You don't have to get out of bed for it.Wherever you happen to beThey bring it to you—free.

You bloody old towser-faced boot-faced totem-pole on a crap reservation.

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.

America takes her writers too seriously.