Quotes by : Martin Amis

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

A writer’s life is half ambition and half anxiety, and there has to be both. It is no good writing....

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

Why couldn't Rachel be a little more specific about the type of person she was? Goodness knew; if she....

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

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

The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.

It used to be said, not so long ago, that every suicide gave Satan special pleasure. I don't think that's....

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is....