Index of Authors

Douglas Adams: [deadlines] [new technologies]
Arletty: [age] [brothels]
Margarey Atwood: [gardening]
Neal Ascherson: [friends] [future] [geography]

Nancy Banks-Smith: [journalism] [simile] [moustaches]
Beachcomber: [justice] [love]
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais: [censorship] [humanity]
Alan Bennett: [Auden] [Betjeman] [camp]
Chaz Brenchley: [haiku]

Raymond Chandler: [alcohol] [oxymoron] [syntax]
G. K. Chesterton: [fairy tales] [fiction]
Claud Cockburn [headlines] [politics]
Wendy Cope: [John Donne] [Philip Larkin]

Peter Dickinson: [comics] [deponent verbs] [dreaming] [grammar] [intellectual freedom]
Denis Diderot: [God]
Maurice Dodd: [John Donne] [enzymes]
Bob Dylan: [failure] [idols]

Peter Fleming: [fairyland] [journey] [on the spot]
E.M. Forster [the Mishnory Road]

Neil Gaiman: [cheese] [comics] [deadlines] [eccentricity] [editing] [Frankfurt Bookfair] [Hollywood] [honours] [Gaiman's Law] [style]

Alexander Herzen: [future]

Clive James: [abortion]
Diana Wynne Jones: [facts] [gnomic utterances]

Ursula LeGuin: [acid] [anarchism] [creation] [housework] [the Mishnory Road] [writing]
Primo Levi [the Jews] [Kapos] [matter]

Groucho Marx: [books]
Peter Milligan: [syntax]
John Milton: [censorship] [harmony]
Michel de Montaigne: [change] [contradiction] [friends] [funerals] [imagination]
Alan Moore: [birdshit] [crime] [diamonds] [history] [horror] ["Where do you get your ideas from?"] [story] [Thought for the Day] [truth]

Phil Ochs: [absurdity] [genre]
P.J. O'Rourke: [drugs] [humour] [Israel]
George Orwell: [humour]

Dorothy Parker: [coincidence] [comment] [ladies] [love] [salary]
Terry Pratchett: [Cornucopia] [death] [knowledge]

Dorothy L. Sayers: [advertising] [debate] [salvation]
N. F. Simpson: [government] [laughter]
Sydney Smith:[garlic]

G. B. Trudeau: [drugs] [gaffer]

Ursula Vernon:["Where do you get your ideas from?"]

Katharine Whitehorn: [boast] [memory]
Walt Whitman: [beauty] [contradiction]
Richard Wilbur [gnomons]

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