English "novelist, poet, critic, teacher".
"He created in "Lucky Jim," 1954 a comic figure who who became a household word in Great Britain in the 1950s."
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night and then as its mausoleum.
I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pâté than any other.
"I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root."
"Death has got something to be said for it: There's no need to get out of bed for it; Wherever you may be, They bring it to you, free."