"Deciding to write a novel about something -……" — 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 good evocation of writer's block."
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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 Around Something Quotes
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Faith, to be faith, must center around something that is not known. Faith, to be faith, must go beyond that…
— Boyd K. Packer
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I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done…
— Rowan Williams
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It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a…
— Richard Branson
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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
— Larry David
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I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's…
— Jarvis Cocker
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There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly,
— James Cameron
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I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.
— Norah Jones
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I'm not boring to be around. Something will always happen.
— Mila Kunis
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Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation…
— Gary Ross
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I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around…
— Bill Bryson
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