Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and early short story The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, both of which were adapted into films...
good-times propaganda
All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.
being-single thinking age
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.
art writing simplicity
The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.
running soul world
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.