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Novel Quotes by Martin Amis
- Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a…
- I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time…
- My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.
- No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.
- 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…
- The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a…
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