"All writers of fiction will at some point……" — Martin Amis
"All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say."
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123 Quotes by Martin Amis
Martin Amis has 123 quotes on this site.
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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and…
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Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
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Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an…
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When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral…
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Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
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Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're…
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Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
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Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
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Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark -…
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One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going…
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Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
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More will mean worse.
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More Abandoning Quotes
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one of 102 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything.…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from…
— Julia Hill
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The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every…
— Jean Lorrain
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However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving…
— Allen Ginsberg
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Perhaps the real point of life is simply to wear us down until we have no choice but to start…
— Katrina Kenison
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
— Epictetus
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If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have…
— Tom Regan
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Do you believe that Jesus is worth abandoning everything for? Do you believe him enough to obey him and to…
— David Platt
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When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a…
— Gautama Buddha
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A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily,…
— Gautama Buddha
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