Best Martin Amis Sayings
- Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my… All
- Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus… Another Form
- Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual. Christianity
- My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim. Career
- No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. Changed
- Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties. Age
- Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how… Body
- Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years. Annually
- The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like… Compellingly
- When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the… Author
- It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it… Clich
- Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is… Absolutely
- 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 home to a… Accommodations
- The only writer who gives me unfeigned pleasure is P.G. Wodehouse. And even him I find a bit heavy. He takes a lot out of… Bit
- What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive… Any
- Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I… Afraid
- Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about… Bits
- Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing… All
- So if you ever felt something behind you, when you weren't even one, like welcome heat, like a bulb, like a sun, trying to shine… Across
- Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among… All
- The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of… Billion
- The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you're bracing yourself for impact. Hard… Age
- He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any right, had any… Any
- Richard's bookshelves weren't alphabetized. He never had time to alphabetize them. He was always too busy- looking for books he couldn't find. Alphabetize
- We all have names we don't know about. All
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