Quote

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Martin Amis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Martin Amis
Age: 75
Memoirist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Abertawe
Martin Louis Amis
Hours
Lost
Play
Work
Hour
Every
Guess
Love
Harder
Gets
Becomes

More quotes by Martin Amis

Image
They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be.
Martin Amis
Image
When things are going well, you do have the sense that what you’re writing is being fed to you in some way. Auden compared writing a poem to cleaning an old piece of slate until the letters appear. The only way you could reveal your god is perhaps under hypnosis. It’s sacred and it’s secret, even to the writer.
Martin Amis
Image
Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.
Martin Amis
Image
Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.
Martin Amis
Image
You get the feeling that childhood does not last as long as it used to. Innocence gets harder to hold on to as the world gets older, as it accumulates more experience, more mileage and more blood on the tracks.
Martin Amis
Image
I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right.
Martin Amis
Image
Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual.
Martin Amis
Image
They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye.
Martin Amis
Image
There's Chile and there's Uruguay, and no one quite knows why Uruguay is so appealingly selfless because they've had their terror and their revolution like all the rest. But somehow, there's something in them.
Martin Amis
Image
Has it ever happened to you...? The color of the day suddenly changes to shadow. And you know you're going to remember that moment for the rest of your life.
Martin Amis
Image
There isn't what my father called the cruising hostility of the English press - where they're looking around for something to attack. You don't feel that there's a great reservoir of resentment in the press as you do in England.
Martin Amis
Image
Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.
Martin Amis
Image
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
Image
Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.
Martin Amis
Image
It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle.
Martin Amis
Image
But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while.
Martin Amis
Image
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.
Martin Amis
Image
My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.
Martin Amis
Image
Style isn't something added on it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life.
Martin Amis
Image
The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.
Martin Amis