What Became of Jane Austen? And Other Questions Quotes

“I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative party because it is the party of nonpolitics, of resistance to politics. I have seen how many of the evils of life — failure, loneliness, fear, boredom, inability to communicate — are ineradicable by political means, and that attempts so to eradicate them are disastrous.”
― Kingsley Amis, What Became of Jane Austen? And Other Questions

“John D. MacDonald is by any standards a better writer than Saul Bellow, only MacDonald writes thrillers and Bellow is a human-heart chap, so guess who wears the top-grade laurels?”
― Kingsley Amis, What Became of Jane Austen? And Other Questions