Martin Louis Amis (b.1949) is a British novelist. His best-known novels are Money and London Fields. He has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and has been listed for the Booker Prize twice to date. Amis served as the Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester until 2011. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
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More will mean worse.
—Martin Amis
Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
—Martin Amis
Topics: Style
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: Authors & Writing, 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
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
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
—Martin Amis
Topics: Peace
Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
—Martin Amis
Topics: Meaning, One liners, War
Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.
—Martin Amis
Topics: Perspective
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
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