I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me.

- Alan Sillitoe

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

- Alan Sillitoe

All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.

- Alan Sillitoe

You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and bottles of iodine in case y…

- Alan Sillitoe

I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp …

- Alan Sillitoe

Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked hou…

- Alan Sillitoe

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

- Alan Sillitoe

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

- 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.

- Alan Sillitoe