He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged. — 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
I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect… — 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
It is quite an achievement. People of liberal sympathies, stupefied by relativism, have become the apologists for a creedal wave that is… — 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
Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes - something I've been… — 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
For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don't want to have… — 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
People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts. — 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
