A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

I tell you, once a girl's got a dose of novels she's a pushover for iambic pentameter.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Penicillin and plastic bags help a lot, fridges and hot water make manliness more comfortable and Tom Ford's fragrance range makes it smell better, but the idea that has pushed our lives into the light more than any other -ism or -ology is feminism.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Margaret Thatcher was as viscerally hated at home as she was warmly respected abroad.

A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua

I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.

A. J. Liebling
A. J. Liebling

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

A. J. McLean
A. J. McLean

I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.

A. N. Wilson
A. N. Wilson

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.

A. N. Wilson
A. N. Wilson

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

A. N. Wilson
A. N. Wilson

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

A. P. Herbert
A. P. Herbert

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.