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
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
“A writer’s life is half ambition and half anxiety, and there has to be both. It is no good writing a novel… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you… — 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
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 Image
Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...) — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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