The egotism of people who are eminent without being in the least distinguished and somehow feeling that's their due - that seems… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people who read fiction are interested in subtlety. But they wouldn't like my stuff. It's a bit… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
People look at fame and feel deprived if they haven't got it, feeling that this is a basic, almost a human right,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My theory is - we don’t really go that far into other people, even when we think we do. We hardly ever… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
One thing you can't help noticing in South America and in Latin culture, generally, is how nice people are. Although when I… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It is quite an achievement. People of liberal sympathies, stupefied by relativism, have become the apologists for a creedal wave that is… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes - something I've been… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I… — 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
Egotism exists everywhere, but it has a different flavor in England, where the tabloid culture goes much deeper. It's just the indulgence… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
In Germany, they were very interested in talking about their past. I respect that, and I think they've done quite well. It's… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It's interesting when you're doing signing sessions with other writers and you look at the queues at each table and you can… — 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
