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I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write.
Martin Amis
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Martin Amis
Age: 75
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Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.
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When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old enough now to identify them very strongly as being young - whereas before, of course they were young, because you were young. Now it's not like that.
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My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.
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Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.
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Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your talent.
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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.
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My 12-year-old daughter said to me, Enough with the subtitles, Daddy, for crying out loud. Because they always seem to cloud the issue rather than clarify it.
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When I hear about some sensational new writer I sort of think, Shut up ... you've got to be around for a long time before you can really say you're a writer. You've got to stand the test of time, which is the only real test there is.
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Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just don't want to commit themselves in that way. When you're young and you look ahead, time ends in mist at twenty-five. 'Old won't happen to me', you say. But old does. Oh, old does. Old always gets you in the end.
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I'm afraid the negative things are always the great subjects. Failure is much more interesting than success.
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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.
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It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you down in the center of the earth.
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It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.
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When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.
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Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
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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.
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Weapons are like money no one knows the meaning of enough.
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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.
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When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
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