--- title: "14 Want Quotes By Martin Amis" description: "14 Want quotes by Martin Amis. Plus more from Martin Amis and more Want sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e29/martin-amis-704_arena_if-you-want-to-know-the-real-meaning-of_1502768.jpg" --- > [If you want to know the real meaning of pornography, it is the utter dissociation of love and sex, the banishment of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/if-you-want-to-know-the-real-meaning-of-pornography-it-is-the-utter/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e29/martin-amis-704_arena_if-you-want-to-know-the-real-meaning-of_1502768.jpg) > [Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/who-would-want-the-socialist-utopia-especially-if-you-were-at-all/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f94/martin-amis-704_artistic_who-would-want-the-socialist-utopia-espe_2323300.jpg) > [I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/i-want-incremental-improvements-there-s-the-record-of-all-the/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b1/martin-amis-704_change_i-want-incremental-improvements-there-s_1047169.jpg) > [He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/he-didn-t-want-to-please-his-readers-he-wanted-to-stretch-them-until/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cd/martin-amis-704_books_he-didn-t-want-to-please-his-readers-he_338188.jpg) > [This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/this-writing-is-the-love-of-your-life-it-s-what-i-want-to-do-when-i/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/843/martin-amis-704_absorbing_this-writing-is-the-love-of-your-life-it_2261182.jpg) > [It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/it-was-the-tiredness-of-time-lived-with-its-days-and-days-it-was-the/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97a/martin-amis-704_earth_it-was-the-tiredness-of-time-lived-with_2799746.jpg) > [The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/the-satirist-isn-t-just-looking-at-things-ironically-but-militantly/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a58/martin-amis-704_effects_the-satirist-isn-t-just-looking-at-thing_1120305.jpg) > [People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/people-are-always-talking-on-their-phones-or-looking-at-their-phones/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d71/martin-amis-704_people_people-are-always-talking-on-their-phone_3228952.jpg) > [For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don't want to have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/for-myself-and-my-loved-ones-i-want-the-heat-which-comes-at-the-speed/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/adb/martin-amis-704_blast_for-myself-and-my-loved-ones-i-want-the_2851541.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/it-s-been-said-that-happiness-writes-white-it-doesn-t-show-up-on-the/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3db/martin-amis-704_accommodations_it-s-been-said-that-happiness-writes-whi_1058068.jpg) > [“Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/suicide-is-what-everyone-young-thinks-they-ll-do-before-they-get-old/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09b/martin-amis-704_age_suicide-is-what-everyone-young-thinks-th_2933410.jpg) > [It is quite an achievement. People of liberal sympathies, stupefied by relativism, have become the apologists for a creedal wave that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/it-is-quite-an-achievement-people-of-liberal-sympathies-stupefied-by/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dce/martin-amis-704_achievement_it-is-quite-an-achievement-people-of-lib_2036161.jpg) > [Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes - something I've been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/several-people-not-just-reviewers-took-me-to-task-for-writing-about/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d94/martin-amis-704_about_several-people-not-just-reviewers-took-m_2656226.jpg) > [Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/standing-in-the-nordic-nook-of-the-kitchen-i-can-gaze-down-at-the/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d6/martin-amis-704_artist_standing-in-the-nordic-nook-of-the-kitch_618344.jpg) ## Other authors on Want ## More by Martin Amis > [“Yeah,' I said and started smoking another cigarette. Unless I inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/yeah-i-said-and-started-smoking-another-cigarette-unless-i-inform-you/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) > [“barrios; each barrio has two or three gangs, and all the gangs are theoretically”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/barrios-each-barrio-has-two-or-three-gangs-and-all-the-gangs-are/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/i-m-not-interested-in-making-a-diagnostic-novel-or-a-concern-i-m-100/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) > [“If we all downed tools and joined hands for ten minutes and stopped believing in money, then money would no longer exist. We never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/if-we-all-downed-tools-and-joined-hands-for-ten-minutes-and-stopped/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/when-i-see-a-lot-of-young-faces-in-the-audience-it-s-just-sort-of/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) > [“I was informed by my viscera that now was the time to put my arm around her shoulders. I ignored them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/i-was-informed-by-my-viscera-that-now-was-the-time-to-put-my-arm/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) > [You use a different part of your heart with girls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/you-use-a-different-part-of-your-heart-with-girls/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/it-s-becoming-clearer-and-clearer-to-me-that-the-world-is-there-to-be/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) > [In her final months Princess Diana was being shat upon by the tabloids -- basically for sleeping with an Arab. When she died, these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/in-her-final-months-princess-diana-was-being-shat-upon-by-the/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) > [If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the only valid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/if-you-feel-you-have-a-strong-constituency-among-the-young-you-can/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) > [My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/my-life-looked-good-on-paper-where-in-fact-almost-all-of-it-was-being/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/i-say-if-i-had-a-serious-brain-injury-i-might-well-write-a-children-s/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) > [The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/the-future-could-go-this-way-that-way-the-future-s-futures-have-never/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) > [Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/each-life-is-a-game-of-chess-that-went-to-hell-on-the-seventh-move/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) > [ “There exists a subterranean world where pathological fantasies disguised as ideas are churned out by crooks and half-educated fanatics \[notably the lower clergy\] for… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/there-exists-a-subterranean-world-where-pathological-fantasies/) [Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/want/martin-amis/#itemlist", "name": "14 Want Quotes By Martin Amis", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you want to know the real meaning of pornography, it is the utter dissociation of love and sex, the banishment of love from the sexual arena.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Amis" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/if-you-want-to-know-the-real-meaning-of-pornography-it-is-the-utter/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e29/martin-amis-704_arena_if-you-want-to-know-the-real-meaning-of_1502768.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e29/martin-amis-704_arena_if-you-want-to-know-the-real-meaning-of_1502768.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e29/martin-amis-704_arena_if-you-want-to-know-the-real-meaning-of_1502768.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If you want to know the real meaning of pornography, it is the utter dissociation of love and sex, the…” — Martin Amis", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Who would want the socialist Utopia? 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You want to hear about lost passports and rat-filled shacks.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Amis" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/it-s-been-said-that-happiness-writes-white-it-doesn-t-show-up-on-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3db/martin-amis-704_accommodations_it-s-been-said-that-happiness-writes-whi_1058068.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3db/martin-amis-704_accommodations_it-s-been-said-that-happiness-writes-whi_1058068.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3db/martin-amis-704_accommodations_it-s-been-said-that-happiness-writes-whi_1058068.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. 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