Any proper writer ought to be able to write about anything.
He produced a particularly violent James Bond novel, Colonel Sun, in 1968, under the pseudonym Robert Markham. A prodigious output was achieved by an unflinching schedule of 500 words each day. The only novelist he admitted to reading was George McDonald Frazer, author of the sex 'n' swashbuckling Flashman series. 7 May 2000 Letters from an old devil Kingsley Amis was one of the century's most prolific letter writers, so editing his correspondence was never going to be easy.