Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.
—Martin Amis
Topics: Perspective
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
—Martin Amis
Topics: Peace
More will mean worse.
—Martin Amis
Topics: Conflict
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
Topics: Money
Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I’m too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.
—Martin Amis
Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
—Martin Amis
Topics: Meaning, War, Weapon, One liners
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
Topics: Writing, Authors & Writing, Writers
Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It’s passing, yet I’m the one who’s doing all the moving.
—Martin Amis
Topics: Time
Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
—Martin Amis
Topics: Style
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- J. G. Ballard English Novelist
- E. M. Forster English Novelist
- Doris Lessing British Novelist, Poet
- H. G. Wells English Novelist, Historian
- Graham Greene British Novelist
- Brian Aldiss English Novelist
- Joyce Carol Oates American Novelist
- Jeanette Winterson English Novelist
- P. D. James British Novelist
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