Keith Waterhouse

Keith Spencer Waterhouse (6 February 1929 – 4 September 2009) was an English novelist, playwright, screenwriter and journalist. His first novel, Billy Liar, has been adapted into a play, a musical, a film, and a television sitcom. Quotes Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia. Billy Liar (1959), ch. 1 "I turn over a new leaf every day," I said. "But the blots show through." Billy Liar, ch. 11 [There's] too many people making too much muck and too much noise with too little space to do it in. The Daily Mirror, August 17, 1970, cited from Mondays, Thursdays (London: Michael Joseph, 1976), pp. 168-169 Now, […] the world is beginning to look like what it is—overcrowded, dirty, noisy, smelly, and rapidly running out of resources. We're nearing the end of the rainbow, with not a crock of gold in sight. Ibid. The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about. The Observer Magazine, December 30, 1979 Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The? Bookends (1990), cited from Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell; Mr. And Mrs. Nobody; and, Bookends (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992) p. 135 Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir?" The Spectator, January 15, 1994 External links Keith Waterhouse at IMDb Category:Playwrights from England Category:Screenwriters from England Category:Humorists Category:1929 births Category:2009 deaths Category:Columnists from England Category:Novelists from England Category:Essayists from England Category:Satirists from England Category:People from Leeds