Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Style isn't something added on; it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
You can't be up the reader's ass, as many a writer I think is - cute as hell, ingratiating as hell. But… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be… — 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
It's good fun to create an unpredictable character. When he comes into the room, I don't know what he's going to do… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
How incredibly avaricious the whole operation was, the way they made the Jews pay for their tickets in the railway cars to… — 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
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
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
When things are going well, you do have the sense that what you’re writing is being fed to you in some way.… — 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? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment.… — 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
Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
...So in his own way Guy Clinch confronted the central question of his time, a question you saw being asked and answered… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a… — 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
“barrios; each barrio has two or three gangs, and all the gangs are theoretically” — Martin Amis Copy Share
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived. — Martin Amis Copy Share
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
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… — Martin Amis Copy Share
“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… — Martin Amis Copy Share
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