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All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.
- Martin Amis
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The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.
- Martin Amis
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Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
- Martin Amis
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Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
- Martin Amis
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The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview.
- Martin Amis
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All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.
- Martin Amis
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Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.
- Martin Amis
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Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.
- Martin Amis
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#Language
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#Shopping
If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are.
- Martin Amis
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My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.'
- Martin Amis
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It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.
- Martin Amis
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All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.'
- Martin Amis
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#Style
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
- Martin Amis
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.
- Martin Amis
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#I Can
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Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
- Martin Amis
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If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.
- Martin Amis
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Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.
- Martin Amis
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Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.
- Martin Amis
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#Game
#Power
#Style
#Time
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.
- Martin Amis
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#Grow
#Lie
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