Top 42 Quotes by Martin Amis

About Martin Amis

These are some quotes by British author Martin Amis Author, who was born on August 25, 1949.

All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.'

All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.'

Martin Amis

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

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

Martin Amis

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.

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

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

When I wrote 'The Pregnant Widow' three or four years ago, I tried to reread my first novel, 'The Rachel Papers,' because their young heroes are the same age. I couldn't finish it. It seemed to me so technically slapdash and weak.

Martin Amis

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

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

Martin Amis

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.

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.

Martin Amis

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.

Martin Amis

If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are.

If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are.

Martin Amis

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

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