“Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“If you want a couple of weeks in bed (as I did, bi-annually), and if you have indolent and credulous parents, it’s… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Of all the forces, love is the strongest...Love can make a woman pick up a bus, or it can crush a man… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Well, my father Kingsley Amis was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There isn't what my father called the cruising hostility of the English press - where they're looking around for something to attack.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My father once said there's a correlation between a nation's cuisine and its people: England, nice people, nasty food; France, nice food,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Yeah,' I said and started smoking another cigarette. Unless I inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.” — Martin Amis Copy Share
“barrios; each barrio has two or three gangs, and all the gangs are theoretically” — Martin Amis Copy Share
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… — Martin Amis Copy Share
“If we all downed tools and joined hands for ten minutes and stopped believing in money, then money would no longer exist. We never… — Martin Amis Copy Share
When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old… — Martin Amis Copy Share
“I was informed by my viscera that now was the time to put my arm around her shoulders. I ignored them.” — Martin Amis Copy Share
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all… — Martin Amis Copy Share
In her final months Princess Diana was being shat upon by the tabloids -- basically for sleeping with an Arab. When she died, these… — Martin Amis Copy Share
If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the only valid… — Martin Amis Copy Share
My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived. — Martin Amis Copy Share
I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of… — Martin Amis Copy Share
The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice… — Martin Amis Copy Share
“There exists a subterranean world where pathological fantasies disguised as ideas are churned out by crooks and half-educated fanatics [notably the lower clergy] for… — Martin Amis Copy Share
