Martin Amis

“Yeah,' I said and started smoking another cigarette. Unless I inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.”

— Martin Amis

“barrios; each barrio has two or three gangs, and all the gangs are theoretically”

— Martin Amis

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle -…

— Martin Amis

“If we all downed tools and joined hands for ten minutes and stopped believing in money, then money would no longer exist.…

— Martin Amis

When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because…

— Martin Amis

“I was informed by my viscera that now was the time to put my arm around her shoulders. I ignored them.”

— Martin Amis

You use a different part of your heart with girls.

— Martin Amis

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

In her final months Princess Diana was being shat upon by the tabloids -- basically for sleeping with an Arab. When she…

— Martin Amis

If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the…

— Martin Amis

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

— Martin Amis

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

The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take…

— Martin Amis

Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)

— Martin Amis

“There exists a subterranean world where pathological fantasies disguised as ideas are churned out by crooks and half-educated fanatics [notably the lower…

— Martin Amis

Saul Bellow says, funny enough, what French think of your work is tremendously important. And it is. It's more than what the…

— Martin Amis

My belief is that everything that's written about you is actually secondary showbiz nonsense, and you shouldn't take any notice of it.

— Martin Amis

Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.

— Martin Amis

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

We have a huge institution that celebrates the undistinguished, an institution which is nearly as old as the Papists. It's been going…

— Martin Amis

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark - spattered wheels…

— Martin Amis

“The trouble with life (the novelist will feel) is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental…

— Martin Amis

The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light.

— Martin Amis

“…This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events,…

— Martin Amis

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