Brilliant!

Bryan Appleyard was educated at Bolton School and King’s College, Cambridge and after graduating with a degree in English. He was Financial News Editor and Deputy Arts Editor at The Times from 1976 to 1984.

- from BryanAppleyard.com

Big up the British

Satire is what we, the British, have always done better than anybody. From Chaucer, Swift and Alexander Pope to Chris Morris (The Day Today, Brass Eye, Four Lions), savage and comic lampoons of the age’s ignorance, delusions and cruelties have been as much a part of what this nation is as poetry, cathedrals and binge drinking.

- Bryan Appleyard, 'On Satire'

Taciturnity/Economy

One of those dreadful books I had downloaded had mentioned that cowboys talk little and say much...

- Bryan Appleyard, 'The Magnificent One'

Like poets. Unlike hairdressers.