Quotes by Martin Amis

Martin Amis

…So in his own way Guy Clinch confronted the central question of his time, a question you saw being asked and answered everywhere you looked, in every headline and haircut: if, at any moment, nothing might matter, then who said that nothing didn’t matter already?

Guy

Matter

Might

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[On STDs] This be Nature’s way of recommending monogamy.

Monogamy

Stds

Way

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Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.

Addiction

Bed

Sometimes

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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.

Adults

Father

Style

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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.

Novelists

Two

Writing

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All that rejection from Republicans has a bit of a racist element. It was very necessary to have a black president, and it’s been a great thing. It will help, in the end, to ease the trauma of slavery and civil war. The war against slavery cost almost 800,000 American lives – that’s how strongly they felt about it. And it’s not going to go away in a century.

Black

Rejection

War

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All the things we value in society don’t mean much in fiction.

Fiction

Mean

Values

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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.

Fiction

Pieces

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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.

America

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America is a younger country than England, obviously, and as self-awareness is forming in America – are we a collection of immigrants, are we a load of Italians and Germans and Jews and Brits and Irish, or are we a country with a soul and an identity? – there was a subliminal sense, they knew that the writers would be the ones who would answer those questions.

America

Country

Self

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