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Martin Amis Quotes
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Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which very much goes for writing (Martin Amis Quotes)
I don’t think I’ve ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn’t seem to be a good way of doing it (Martin Amis Quotes)
I think a lot of people who read fiction are interested in subtlety. But they wouldn’t like my stuff. It’s a bit too violent for many tastes (Martin Amis Quotes)
I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves (Martin Amis Quotes)
You can’t sort of write the novel as if you’re taking dictation from heaven (Martin Amis Quotes)
Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that’s what makes life interesting (Martin Amis Quotes)
I want incremental improvements. There’s the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it’s dreadful (Martin Amis Quotes)
People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don’t want to be alone with their thoughts (Martin Amis Quotes)
I’m not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I’m 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that’s what fiction is, and should be (Martin Amis Quotes)
It’s good fun to create an unpredictable character. When he comes into the room, I don’t know what he’s going to do - I have to find my way (Martin Amis Quotes)
You can’t be up the reader’s ass, as many a writer I think is - cute as hell, ingratiating as hell. But that’s not loving the reader in the right way. That’s toadying to the reader (Martin Amis Quotes)
He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed (Martin Amis Quotes)
So if you ever felt something behind you, when you weren’t even one, like welcome heat, like a bulb, like a sun, trying to shine right across the universe - it was me. Always me. It was me. It was me (Martin Amis Quotes)
It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you down in the center of the earth (Martin Amis Quotes)
Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything (Martin Amis Quotes)
These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom (Martin Amis Quotes)
This (writing) is the love of your life. It’s what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling (Martin Amis Quotes)
Since it is no longer permissible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us start disparaging all of them. A religion is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever. Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful (Martin Amis Quotes)
While making love, we often talk about money. I like it. I like that dirty talk (Martin Amis Quotes)
Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time (Martin Amis Quotes)
The argument, now, is about whether Bolshevik Russia was ‘better’ than Nazi Germany. In the days when the New Left dawned, the argument was about whether Bolshevik Russia was better than America (Martin Amis Quotes)
All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father’s peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on ‘defamatory (Martin Amis Quotes)
In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor (Martin Amis Quotes)
It’s an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That’s an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle (Martin Amis Quotes)
Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all (Martin Amis Quotes)
Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice (Martin Amis Quotes)
Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One flaw: sometimes, early on, she would tell me things designed to make me think less of my mother, and I would wave her away, saying, ‘Jane, this just backfires and makes me think less of you.’ (Martin Amis Quotes)
When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She is off to one side, always off to one side, with a book, with a scheme or a project or an enterprise (Martin Amis Quotes)
On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he’s really proud of (Martin Amis Quotes)
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life (Martin Amis Quotes)