Quotes by : Martin Amis

Novelists don't normally write about what's going on they write about what's not going on.

I have always derived great comfort from William Shakespeare. After a depressing visit to the mirror....

The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own.

How astonishingly intimate the business of fiction is, more intimate than anything that issues from the....

Impartially, shrewdly, I considered suicide, though not in my worst moments. The bottle of pills. The....

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he....

Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the....

I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they....

He thought, Yeah. Yeah, non-smokers live seven years longer. Which seven will be subtracted by the god....

I peer through the spectral, polluted, nicotine-sodden windows of my sock at these old lollopers in their....