When policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more than the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Like writing, paintings seem to hint at a topsy-turvy world in which, so to speak, time’s arrow moves the other way.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. You got that? And meanwhile time… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When I hear about some sensational new writer I sort of think, Shut up ... you've got to be around for a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark - spattered wheels… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just… — 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
The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Impartially, shrewdly, I considered suicide, though not in my worst moments. The bottle of pills. The note: 'No hard feelings, everyone, but… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, there are many more suicide… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Being photographed was dead time for the soul. Can the head think, while it does the same half smile under the same… — 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
“The past weaves all around this; we still duck in and out of its lost but shimmering kingdoms.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Has it ever happened to you...? The color of the day suddenly changes to shadow. And you know you're going to remember… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Richard's bookshelves weren't alphabetized. He never had time to alphabetize them. He was always too busy- looking for books he couldn't find. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
...So in his own way Guy Clinch confronted the central question of his time, a question you saw being asked and answered… — 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
