Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

This is a letter of hate. It is for you my countrymen, I mean those men of my country who have defiled it. The men with manic fingers leading the sightless, fe…

Archie Rice: Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

George Dillon: It's easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

But can we go to posterity with a sheaf of loose pages, or ask the readers of those days, with the whole of literature before them, to sift our enormous rubbis…

'I have no problems with comment that is meant to criticize or scrutinize. I respond only because there has been exaggeration, misrepresentation, and descripti…

I called them, three or four people, and I said, 'It's very easy for a publication to print whatever they want to print as a representation of me, but it's not…