"Mr. Hertzberg is nothing if not ahead of this story," he writes kindly.
As hard-core readers of this blog know, Frum and I go way back, have always been political opponents, and have not always written kindly about each other.
In return, she writes kindly about his book on reading: "At the end of your fine book you say that 'The history of reading has no end'.
For one thing, he stuck by Beckett's work, and wrote kindly and encouragingly when the sales figures came in; he wasn't to know that Beckett was to become one of the most garlanded, respected and, in certain corners, fiercely loved author of the 20th century.
I'm heartened by all the people who have written kindly about Huell.
He reminds me of the limpid parasite Paul Morley, who wrote kindly of me in the NME during that lamentable decade, the 1980s, then traitorously failed to prevent the publication of McNicholas's scurrilous lies some 20 years later.
I receive complaints from both those who think I write too kindly about her and those who think I am too severe.
He continued writing poetry a kindly man, leading a temperate life and died in exile.
Where Pinero wrote with kindly affection about the camaraderie of theatrical companies, Wright seems to faintly patronise the characters.
The universe might realize it had the place right but the date wrong if I waited until, as Dickinson also wrote, Death "kindly stopped for me".
Littell, American-born but bilingual, wrote "The Kindly Ones" in French (as "Les Bienveillantes"), and it won both the Grand Prix du Roman from the Académie Française and the Prix Goncourt.
