Alan Sillitoe Quotes

It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you cant.

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.

You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.

I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me.

Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.

Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.