“Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grows without the thorn” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Maybe love will be like driving. When people move—when they travel—they look where they’ve come from, not where they’re going.” — 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
My friendship with the Hitch has always been perfectly cloudless. It is a love whose month is ever May, — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
While making love, we often talk about money. I like it. I like that dirty talk — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If you want to know the real meaning of pornography, it is the utter dissociation of love and sex, the banishment of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“When you're in love and trying to make someone love you back, you can hear the texture of your own footfalls, the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Of all the forces, love is the strongest...Love can make a woman pick up a bus, or it can crush a man… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“In the last months of the war, when I raped in uniform – we were, by then, so full of death (and… — 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
“Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid,… — 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
Unless I specifically inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . . — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“So I am nineteen years old and don’t usually know what I’m doing, snap my thoughts out of the printed page, get… — 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
