Quote

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?

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
Party
Oil
Weekly
House
Heat
Saudi
Doesn
Worship
Resemble
Seems
Republican
Saudis
Country
Seem
Arabia
Sometimes
Wealth
Execution
Great
Hear
Houses
Executions
Like
Successful
Texas
Brimming

More quotes by 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
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
Martin Amis
Image
As someone once said, covers to a novel are like bars to a cage. You can watch the tiger, the Komodo dragon, and admire it - its heart, its severity. Even when they carry out an ugly act, it's still fascinating.
Martin Amis
Image
Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life
Martin Amis
Image
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.
Martin Amis
Image
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.
Martin Amis
Image
Style is not neutral it gives moral directions.
Martin Amis
Image
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
Martin Amis
Image
It is straightforward — and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.
Martin Amis
Image
[On STDs] This be Nature’s way of recommending monogamy.
Martin Amis
Image
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
Image
America still is the center of the world, and what happens in the American economy matters everywhere.
Martin Amis
Image
The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.
Martin Amis
Image
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
Image
The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.
Martin Amis
Image
No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.
Martin Amis
Image
Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.
Martin Amis
Image
The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.
Martin Amis
Image
Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual.
Martin Amis
Image
When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.
Martin Amis