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Martin Amis Quotes

All the things we value in society don’t mean much in fiction Picture Quote #1

One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There’s no going back Picture Quote #1

Laughter always forgives Picture Quote #1

I sometimes feel I’m a sort of cult writer, rather than a mainstream writer, in that those who like my stuff like it a lot, but the appeal is not that broad Picture Quote #1

Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual Picture Quote #1

It’s hard to make progress with grief Picture Quote #1

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We all have names we don’t know about Picture Quote #1

So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else Picture Quote #1

I hire tea by the tea bag Picture Quote #1

More will mean worse Picture Quote #1

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions Picture Quote #1

Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture Picture Quote #1

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The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating Picture Quote #1

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside Picture Quote #1

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn Picture Quote #1

Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism Picture Quote #1

The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you’re bracing yourself for impact. Hard to love, when the loved one, and the lover, might at any instant become blood and flames, along with everybody else Picture Quote #1

When things are going well, you do have the sense that what you’re writing is being fed to you in some way. Auden compared writing a poem to cleaning an old piece of slate until the letters appear. The only way you could reveal your God is perhaps under hypnosis. It’s sacred and it’s secret, even to the writer Picture Quote #1

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The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it’s always the same beginning, and the same ending Picture Quote #1

If you want to know the real meaning of pornography, it is the utter dissociation of love and sex, the banishment of love from the sexual arena Picture Quote #1

You use a different part of your heart with girls Picture Quote #1

Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose Picture Quote #1

My belief is that everything that’s written about you is actually secondary showbiz nonsense, and you shouldn’t take any notice of it Picture Quote #1

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All the things we value in society don’t mean much in fiction (Martin Amis Quotes) One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There’s no going back. (Martin Amis Quotes) Laughter always forgives (Martin Amis Quotes) I sometimes feel I’m a sort of cult writer, rather than a mainstream writer, in that those who like my stuff like it a lot, but the appeal is not that broad (Martin Amis Quotes) Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual (Martin Amis Quotes) It’s hard to make progress with grief (Martin Amis Quotes) We all have names we don’t know about (Martin Amis Quotes) So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else (Martin Amis Quotes) I hire tea by the tea bag (Martin Amis Quotes) More will mean worse (Martin Amis Quotes) Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions (Martin Amis Quotes) Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture (Martin Amis Quotes) The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating (Martin Amis Quotes) Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside (Martin Amis Quotes) Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn (Martin Amis Quotes) Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism (Martin Amis Quotes) The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you’re bracing yourself for impact. Hard to love, when the loved one, and the lover, might at any instant become blood and flames, along with everybody else (Martin Amis Quotes) When things are going well, you do have the sense that what you’re writing is being fed to you in some way. Auden compared writing a poem to cleaning an old piece of slate until the letters appear. The only way you could reveal your God is perhaps under hypnosis. It’s sacred and it’s secret, even to the writer (Martin Amis Quotes) The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it’s always the same beginning, and the same ending (Martin Amis Quotes) If you want to know the real meaning of pornography, it is the utter dissociation of love and sex, the banishment of love from the sexual arena (Martin Amis Quotes) You use a different part of your heart with girls (Martin Amis Quotes) Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose (Martin Amis Quotes) My belief is that everything that’s written about you is actually secondary showbiz nonsense, and you shouldn’t take any notice of it (Martin Amis Quotes)