"To discuss a Martin Amis book, you must……" — Graydon Carter
"To discuss a Martin Amis book, you must first discuss the orchestrated release of a Martin Amis book. In London, which rightly prides itself on the vibrancy of its literary cottage industry, Amis is the Steve Jobs of book promoters, and his product rollouts are as carefully managed as anything Apple dreams up."
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77 Quotes by Graydon Carter
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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
— Russell Baker
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Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as…
— Geoff Dyer
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Je me sens vraiment entre amis. (I feel that I am truly among friends.)
— John F. Kennedy
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.
— Kingsley Amis
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I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch,…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist…
— Martin Amis
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I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I…
— James Herbert
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I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics…
— Terry Eagleton
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The Electroshock Novelist: The Alluring Bad Boy of Literary England Has Always Been Fascinated by Britain's Dustbin Empire. Now Martin…
— Sam Tanenhaus
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Amis is a force unto himself There is, quite simply, no one else like him.
— Jonathan Yardley
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I love Martin Amis.
— Maura Tierney
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