Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.

My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.

The Uruguayans have a sort of purity. I don't know where they got it, and I doubt even if they know from where they got it. Perhaps they didn't kill off their major population.

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.