My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...) — 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
“The trouble with life (the novelist will feel) is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Well, we cry and twist and are naked at both ends of life. We cry at both ends of life, while the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say? — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Is it a war we are fighting, a war against health, against life and love? My condition is a torn condition. Every… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It's a young country and a German only feels comfortable being with the masses. They have very little talent at creating an… — 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
It's tremendously important how you get on with the other sex. Your life record on that is incredibly important. You never really… — 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
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be… — 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
Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“A writer’s life is half ambition and half anxiety, and there has to be both. It is no good writing a novel… — 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
“One recalls John Updike’s argument: the only evidence for the existence of God is the collective human yearning that it should be… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Girls, in those days, couldn't do anything to you (they couldn't call the lawyers, the tabloids, the cops) except kill themselves or… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“And there was something that frightened me much more. If I went to the doctor's tomorrow, and was cured by, say, the… — 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
All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently… — 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
“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
