Quote

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

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
Seems
Clouds
Enough
Issue
Years
Cry
Subtitles
Always
Daughter
Clarify
Seem
Cloud
Issues
Daddy
Year
Crying
Rather
Loud

More quotes by Martin Amis

Image
I'm afraid the negative things are always the great subjects. Failure is much more interesting than success.
Martin Amis
Image
I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.
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 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.
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
Style isn't something added on it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life.
Martin Amis
Image
In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.
Martin Amis
Image
My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.
Martin Amis
Image
Weapons are like money no one knows the meaning of enough.
Martin Amis
Image
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.
Martin Amis
Image
Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your talent.
Martin Amis
Image
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.
Martin Amis
Image
Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.
Martin Amis
Image
No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.
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
I don't think I'd like Manhattan anymore. My mother-in-law lives there, and you go there. But I like looking at it from a distance. It's a fantastic sight - every time, it awes me.
Martin Amis
Image
Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.
Martin Amis
Image
In the concordance of Nicola Six's kisses there were many subheads and subsections, many genres and phyla - chapter and verse, cross-references, multiple citations.
Martin Amis
Image
When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.
Martin Amis
Image
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.
Martin Amis