Top 42 Quotes by Martin Amis

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.

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

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

Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body.

Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.

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

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.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

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.

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.