Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...) Martin Amis More Quotes by Martin Amis More Quotes From Martin Amis 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. Martin Amis incheslightyears Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. Martin Amis takenmilitarypeace Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . . Martin Amis blindlove-ismen 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 typewritersnew-lifehappens The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light. Martin Amis lightairideas 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 bookpastyears When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author. Martin Amis storiesmindcharacter The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect on the world. Martin Amis effectswantworld I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence. An awful lot of modern writing seems to me to be a depressed use of language. Once, I called it "vow-of-poverty prose." No, give me the king in his countinghouse. Give me Updike. Martin Amis kingswritinggiving Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money. Martin Amis bitsshadowifs The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone. Martin Amis alivefirsts 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. Martin Amis noveliststeachingthinking Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture. Martin Amis addictiontwinsculture Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do, to see what's there, to see it in a way that renews it. It becomes more and more urgent as the planet gets worn flat and forest after forest is slain to print the paper for people's impressions to be scrawled down on. It becomes harder and harder to be original, to see things with an innocent eye. Innocence is much tied up with it. As the planet gets progressively less innocent, you need a more innocent eye to see it. Martin Amis eyewritingpeople Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. Martin Amis roselyingart Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. Martin Amis moralstylegiving 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. Martin Amis drivingpurposepersonality 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. Martin Amis suicideagethinking Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life Martin Amis wayfiction Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway. Martin Amis feartryingpeople
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