It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is… — 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… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It's interesting when you're doing signing sessions with other writers and you look at the queues at each table and you can… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. And the great satirists, like Swift and Dickens, tend to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel I'm a sort of cult writer, rather than a mainstream writer, in that those who like my stuff like… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“The easier a thing is to write then the more the writer gets paid for writing it. (And vice versa: ask the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The only writer who gives me unfeigned pleasure is P.G. Wodehouse. And even him I find a bit heavy. He takes a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There's a lot of anti-intellectualism in Britain. And the writer's views on this or that are really of less importance, as they… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write, — 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
Egotism exists everywhere, but it has a different flavor in England, where the tabloid culture goes much deeper. It's just the indulgence… — 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
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
“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
