Martin Amis was a British author who wrote novels, short stories and non-fiction. He was born in 1949 and was the son of the novelist Kingsley Amis. His works include Money, London Fields and The Information.
What is the most famous quote by Martin Amis ?
I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.
— Martin Amis
What can you learn from Martin Amis (Life Lessons)
- Martin Amis teaches us to be honest and open about our feelings and experiences, and to never be afraid to speak our truth.
- He encourages us to take risks and never be afraid to try something new, even if it seems difficult or intimidating.
- He reminds us that life is precious and to make the most of it by living in the present moment and appreciating all of its beauty.
The most joyful Martin Amis quotes that are free to learn and impress others
Following is a list of the best quotes, including various Martin Amis inspirational quotes, and other famous sayings by Martin Amis.
Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.
Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.
When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable
Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.
Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .
Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.
Satirical quotes by Martin Amis
These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.
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.
I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.
Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.
If you want to know the real meaning of pornography, it is the utter dissociation of love and sex, the banishment of love from the sexual arena.
Since it is no longer permissible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us start disparaging all of them... A religion is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever. Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.
The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity.
Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it’s always the same beginning, and the same ending.
Quotations by Martin Amis that are absurdist and poignant
It is quite an achievement. People of liberal sympathies, stupefied by relativism, have become the apologists for a creedal wave that is racist, misogynist, homophobic, imperialist, and genocidal. To put it another way, they are up the arse of those that want them dead.
Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy;
it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.
Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.
It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind of way.
The argument, now, is about whether Bolshevik Russia was 'better' than Nazi Germany. In the days when the New Left dawned, the argument was about whether Bolshevik Russia was better than America.
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.
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.
Your purpose when driving is not to arrive at your destination safely or quickly. Your purpose when driving is...to impress your personality on the road.
Writers spend too much time among dead things.
I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life into something that is inanimate. You see what a sort of audacious thing it is to move these sort of imaginary people around in a very stylized and patterned world.
The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.
This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling.
The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.
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.
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
We hear about the successful "Texanisation" of the Republican party. And doesn't Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions?
No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. And the great satirists, like Swift and Dickens, tend to write about abuses and injustices that have already been partially corrected - you write about it after it's over.
Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body.
[On STDs] This be Nature’s way of recommending monogamy.
At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution.
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.
I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to make nuanced judgments. And really to just make the planet look a bit richer when you go out into the street.
You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other's otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full *contact* - all that?
He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.
In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.
Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.
How incredibly avaricious the whole operation was, the way they made the Jews pay for their tickets in the railway cars to the death camps. Yeah, and the rates for a third-class ticket, one way. And half price for children.... It was a kind of exploration of evil. Just how bad can we get?
So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.
When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination in the face of all the commonsense arguments, and at the cost of 20 million lives at least, in Russia, to build the socialist Utopia.
It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has to not only love his characters - which you do, without even thinking about it, just as you love your children. But also to love the reader, and that's what I mean by the pleasure principle.
Oh man sometimes I wake up feel like a cat runover. Are you familiar with the stoical aspects of hard drinking, of heavy drinking? Oh it's heavy. Oh it's hard. It isn't easy. Jesus, I never meant me any harm. All I wanted was a good time.
Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.
While making love, we often talk about money. I like it. I like that dirty talk
Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what makes life interesting.