Quotes by Martin Amis

Martin Amis

British novelist

Alive from: 1949-

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  More will mean worse.

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  America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.

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

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

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  I'm afraid the negative things are always the great subjects. Failure is much more interesting than success.

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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 a tacit conspiracy.

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  Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
  Source: Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (2014) 42

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  People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.

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  Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.
  Source: Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offence (1991)

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  Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.
  Source: London Fields (1989)

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  Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

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  The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.
  Source: London Fields (1989)

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

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  When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.

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  When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable.