Archives for February 3, 2010

John Betjeman interviews Philip Larkin for the BBC in 1964:

(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)

“I think that every novelist ought to entertain before he does anything else. And that’s very difficult. It’s much easier to be serious and to seem important, or to seem serious rather than to entertain.”
Kingsley Amis (quoted in Conversations With Kingsley Amis)