Martin Amis

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

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.

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.

Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a fifth member.