Quotes by Martin Amis

Martin Amis

Martin Amis

British novelist

Lived from: 1949 - 2023

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 25 august 1949 Died: 19 may 2023

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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.
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