Alan Williams (novelist) Quotes

Alan Emlyn Williams is an ex-foreign correspondent, novelist and writer of thrillers. He was educated at Stowe, Grenoble and Heidelberg Universities, and at King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1957 with a B.A. in modern languages. His father was the actor and writer Emlyn Williams. Noël Coward was his godfather. His younger brother Brook was also an actor.

Williams was briefly married to literary agent Maggie Noach [1]. Together they compiled The Dictionary of Disgusting Facts.

Journalist Philippa Toomey describes him as a "talented and funny mimic with a gift for words and a stock of tales from the shaggy Express story to the grimmer side of international journalism."He has three children. Owen and Laura were the children of with his wife at the time, Antonia . He then married Maggie Noach and their daughter Sophie was born in 1989. Wikipedia

✵ 28. August 1935

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Famous Alan Williams (novelist) Quotes

“I have no particular political views but I was and am struck by the idea that the left and the right are always entirely similar when they become extreme - they click together like two edges of a magnet.”

Alan Williams (novelist)

Toomey, Philippa. "Tilting at windmills", London Times, 8 July 1978, p. 12.

“Sex is good but poker lasts longer.”

Alan Williams (novelist)

Spanier, David. Total Poker. London: Secker & Warburg, 1977. No page number. (Cited in Poker Wit & Wisdom: Quotes and Writings on America's Favorite Card Game. A. D. Livingston. Globe Pequot (2006); pg. 50).

“A journalist who has to borrow a typewriter is bad news.”

Alan Williams (novelist)

Toomey, Philippa. "Tilting at windmills", London Times, 8 July 1978, p. 12.