Martin Amis Quotes

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• Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
• Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
• Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One…
• When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She…
• Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
• Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.
• Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
• Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
• Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark - spattered wheels and a hoarse…
• One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.
• Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
• More will mean worse.
• I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.
• Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's nearly as bad…
• You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, there are many more suicide notes than there…
• Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at, and squeezed into this funny shape. Each life is a game of chess…
• Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)
• 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 who…
• I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write,
• Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.

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