Death Quote by Martin Amis

“Yeah,' I said and started smoking another cigarette. Unless I inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.”

— Martin Amis

“barrios; each barrio has two or three gangs, and all the gangs are theoretically”

— Martin Amis

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what…

— Martin Amis

“If we all downed tools and joined hands for ten minutes and stopped believing in money, then money would no longer exist. We never…

— Martin Amis

When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old…

— Martin Amis

“I was informed by my viscera that now was the time to put my arm around her shoulders. I ignored them.”

— Martin Amis

You use a different part of your heart with girls.

— Martin Amis

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all…

— Martin Amis

In her final months Princess Diana was being shat upon by the tabloids -- basically for sleeping with an Arab. When she died, these…

— Martin Amis

If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the only valid…

— Martin Amis

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

— Martin Amis

I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of…

— Martin Amis