“The easier a thing is to write then the more the writer gets paid for writing it. (And vice versa: ask the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Robert Conquest once suggested that 'a curious little volume might be made of the poems of Stalin, Castro, Mao and Ho Chi… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
In the concordance of Nicola Six's kisses there were many subheads and subsections, many genres and phyla - chapter and verse, cross-references,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“The ad world used to be something of a refuge for literary types. But I feared for myself at J.W.T. It seemed… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Twenty-two poems covered the period from Lev’s first serious efforts to his arrest in 1948 at the age of nineteen. Very Mandelstamian,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I love the working class, and everyone from it that I've met, and think they're incredible witty, inventive - there's a lot… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When things are going well, you do have the sense that what you’re writing is being fed to you in some way.… — 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
