"Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their……" — Martin Amis
"Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour."
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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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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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I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.
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More Arc Quotes
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one of 140 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
— Rob Bell
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Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
— Charles Bukowski
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures.…
— Pema Chodron
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Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who…
— Dave Barry
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Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that…
— Merlin Stone
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When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards,…
— Hermann von Helmholtz
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Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something…
— Nancy Kress
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When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and…
— Dante Alighieri
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After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some…
— Brittany Snow
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The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.
— Barack Obama
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