Never really angry ...

... Alan Sillitoe: Interview with the original Angry Young Man. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

“I think all those years of writing before being published had taught me to write with precision,” he says. “I didn't want to indulge in purple passages and overwrite and use too many words. I knew that the voice and tone was just right. I had found my own way, which is just as well.”