If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the… — 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
Oh man sometimes I wake up feel like a cat runover. Are you familiar with the stoical aspects of hard drinking, of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel I'm a sort of cult writer, rather than a mainstream writer, in that those who like my stuff like… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
You know, I wouldn’t have done this a month ago. I wouldn’t have done it then. Then I was avoiding. Now I’m… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
America is proud of what it does to its writers, the way it breaks and bedevils them, rendering them deluded or drunken… — 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
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
This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Much modern prose is praised for its terseness, its scrupulous avoidance of curlicue, etcetera. But I don't feel the deeper rhythm there.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or… — 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 Image
“barrios; each barrio has two or three gangs, and all the gangs are theoretically” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
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 Image
