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Martin Amis

Martin Amis

British Author

Born: Aug 25, 1949

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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. Martin Amis

Gun Out Taken Bullets Cannot Recalled

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy. Martin Amis

Strength Money Mind Evil Conspiracy Addiction Say Tacit Goes Fiction

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. Martin Amis

Style Moral Directions Gives Neutral

You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star. Martin Amis

You Combine Being Movie Cannot Movie Star Star

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

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. Martin Amis

Changed See As Far As Anything Far Novel Ever

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

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century. Martin Amis

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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. Martin Amis

Life Family You Shopping Language Signs Enter Correspondence Consult Chat Attend Road Observe Study Stuff Leads Another Does Exists Friends Family And Friends Artifice Quite Lists Where Form Double Then Your Novelist

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external. Martin Amis

Cinema Concerns Itself Very Literature Internal External

I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write. Martin Amis

Me Would About Someone Write Never Forced Than Register Lower

The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a paper, that seems to go off, like a solar flare inside your head. Martin Amis

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