Tuesday, February 27, 2007

The Prof Does not Profess to be the Greatest

So what does Professor Amis, last week dubbed 'the greatest living British author', think of such an idea? The same as JG Ballard, Louise Doughty and me: this morning on Radio 4's Today programme he called such comparisons 'futile' and offered his opinion that 'the only critic is time'.

2 comments:

Ms Baroque said...

And even that's not infallible.

Elizabeth Baines said...

Too true