Martin Amis Quotes

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
Martin Amis

Money, Strength, Mind

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
Martin Amis

Cannot, Gun, Taken

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
Martin Amis

All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.
Martin Amis

Different, Two, Write

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.
Martin Amis

Work, Find, Themselves

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.
Martin Amis

Great, Person, Different

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
Martin Amis

Life, Sense, Turn

I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write.
Martin Amis

Someone, Write, Forced

If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are.
Martin Amis

Democracy, Matter, Liberal

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.
Martin Amis

Religion, God, Cared

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.
Martin Amis

Hero, America, Traitor

It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.
Martin Amis

Love, Mother, Father

Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.
Martin Amis

Islam, Makes, Individual

My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.'
Martin Amis

Career, Off, Lucky

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.
Martin Amis

Far, Changed, Novel

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
Martin Amis

Human, Career, Follow

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.
Martin Amis

Age, Often, Face

Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body.
Martin Amis

Real, Before, Off

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.
Martin Amis

Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.
Martin Amis

Past, Books, Spanish

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
Martin Amis

Moral, Style, Neutral

The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview.
Martin Amis

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
Martin Amis

Literature, Cinema, Concerns

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
Martin Amis

Money, Enough, Meaning

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.
Martin Amis

Mind, Words, Read

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: August 25, 1949

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