Quotes from Alan Sillitoe

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.

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

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

Everybody thinks they'll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you can't.