Martin Amis Quotes

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.

Martin Amis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: August 25, 1949

Topics

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In 'Falling Skies,' I was playing a soldier and a fighter, and then, when I was taken captive, you're still in this post-apocalyptic world.

Jessy Schram

WorldYouFighterSkiesFalling

Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.

Joe Torre

SuccessMistakesTeamLookingYou

I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

Jeannette Walls

FastBigBig FanFanAgainWriter

I care a lot about my looks, although I'm not too adventurous. Every day I dress the same way in a kind of 'uniform' of black, although in varying fabrics - it's always black.

Sonia Rykiel

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I'd really love to live in New York for awhile. That's what I'm hoping to do.

Rosamund Pike

LoveLiveNew YorkNewReallyYork

Children's literature is as valid an art form as any other.

Lloyd Alexander

ChildrenArtLiteratureOtherForm

When you're in New York, people don't say, 'We're happy you came to New York.' In D.C., people thank you for coming here and bringing art here.

JR

ArtNew YorkHappyPeopleThank You

My Shabbat dinner is not to be reckoned with.

Judy Gold

DinnerReckoned

I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily.

Arundhati Roy

RomanticBelieveDreamVillageRight

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.

Pierre Loti

QualityMemoryMeNameSeriousOld

I wrote the text of the resignation. I cannot say with precision when, but at the most two weeks before. I wrote it in Latin because something so important you do in Latin. Furthermore, Latin is a language in which I know well how to write in a more appropriate way.

Pope Benedict XVI

LanguageYouKnowImportantSayWay

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

Thomas Kyd

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