Best Martin Amis Quotes
- When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower. Confident
- Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers. Always Write
- I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right. Head
- When things are going well, you do have the sense that what you’re writing is being fed to you in some way. Auden compared writing… Appear
- To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart. All
- Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time. Artistry
- This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling. Absorbing
- My theory is - we don’t really go that far into other people, even when we think we do. We hardly ever go in and… Anybody
- I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to… Bit
- The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor,… Beginning
- The argument, now, is about whether Bolshevik Russia was 'better' than Nazi Germany. In the days when the New Left dawned, the argument was about… America
- If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are. Believe
- I hire tea by the tea bag. Bag
- At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution. Accelerate
- Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. Assumes
- All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory. Adjective
- All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer. All
- All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently… Abandoning
- Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a… Around Something
- Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit… Accept
- I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time… Award
- In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor. America
- It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for. Difficult
- It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the… America
- 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 the… All
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