Martin Amis

The argument, now, is about whether Bolshevik Russia was 'better' than Nazi Germany. In the days when the New Left dawned, the…

— Martin Amis

The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you're bracing yourself…

— Martin Amis

I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence.…

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There's Chile and there's Uruguay, and no one quite knows why Uruguay is so appealingly selfless because they've had their terror and…

— Martin Amis

Well, my father Kingsley Amis was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it…

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“There are several accounts, written or deposed, by the guards, executioners and inhumers of the Romanovs. One of the inhumers said that…

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The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone…

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“When I opened the door to her I felt like a child who believes itself lost on a swarming street and suddenly…

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What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near…

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“And I felt next to nothing as I walked to the village; I paid my respects to the countryside yet was unable…

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“Why couldn't Rachel be a little more specific about the type of person she was? Goodness knew; if she were a hippie…

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I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by…

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“Demi's linguistic quirk is essentially and definingly female. It just is. Drawing in breath to denounce this proposition, women will often come…

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Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites.…

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Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do,…

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“There is a Western phenomenon called the male midlife crisis. Very often it is heralded by divorce. What history might have done…

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I love the working class, and everyone from it that I've met, and think they're incredible witty, inventive - there's a lot…

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You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only…

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“In the last months of the war, when I raped in uniform – we were, by then, so full of death (and…

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For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don't want to have…

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“Nearly every night there were screenings in the private projection rooms in the Kremlin or the various dachas. Khrushchev says that Stalin…

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We hear about the successful "Texanisation" of the Republican party. And doesn't Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia,…

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Oh man sometimes I wake up feel like a cat runover. Are you familiar with the stoical aspects of hard drinking, of…

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“You are as well prepared as any young Westerner could hope to be, equipped with good diet, lavish health insurance, two degrees,…

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One of the many things I do not understand about Americans is this: what is it like to be a citizen of…

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People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I…

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“Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a…

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It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable…

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“Consider the Jewish joke, with the old lady running distractedly along the seashore: Help! My son the doctor is drowning. Amusing, I…

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So if you ever felt something behind you, when you weren't even one, like welcome heat, like a bulb, like a sun,…

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The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you…

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People look at fame and feel deprived if they haven't got it, feeling that this is a basic, almost a human right,…

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I don't think I'd like Manhattan anymore. My mother-in-law lives there, and you go there. But I like looking at it from…

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“But you’ve got to do it in the end. You have to end up with somebody. Because otherwise you go mad, or…

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“There have been rich meat and bloody wine. There have been brandies, and thick puddings. There has already been some dirty talk.…

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“Impartially, shrewdly, I considered suicide, though not in my worst moments. The bottle of pills. The note: 'No hard feelings, everyone, but…

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You get the feeling that childhood does not last as long as it used to. Innocence gets harder to hold on to…

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My theory is - we don’t really go that far into other people, even when we think we do. We hardly ever…

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When things are going well, you do have the sense that what you’re writing is being fed to you in some way.…

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“When a man conclusively exalts one woman, and one woman only, “above all others,” you can be pretty sure you are dealing…

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