Quotes from David Storey

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Bletchley said, sweating freshly in the heat of the bus. 'Some of the species adapt, others don't. In effect, when coal is acquired by wholly mechanical means or perhaps isn't even needed at all, people like Batty and his brothers, and Stringer, won't have a function. And when the function ceases so does the species, or those parts of it that can't recognize or create a further function.

was talking to that girl we were dancing with.' Bletchley ran his handkerchief round beneath his collar. 'Apparently he hardly makes anything out of it at all.

Perhaps it's all an animal existence,' he said. He had to raise his voice above the rattle of the bus. Below them passed the dark waters of the river.

Though what I have in mind', he said, 'is something far different. I thought if we listened to the music you could write down whatever you felt.' He turned on the gramophone.

won literary prizes of some note, twice being shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for instance, and once winning it outright (Saville). Their styles of presentation might be described as 'elemental': in the case of Radcliffe,

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.

Self-confidence is the memory of success.