Martin Amis Quotes

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

Martin Amis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

Jerry Pournelle

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I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

Robert Harris

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The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

Stephen Gardiner

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The very end of me mom's road is the back entrance to Bray Head. Usually climb it when I get home.

Tristan MacManus

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I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.

Trevor Phillips

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My name is Michael Pennington, and I am not a comic character.

Johnny Vegas

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He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Douglas William Jerrold

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I guess I figured out my dad was a fight coordinator pretty early, because I always saw him running into walls and stuff and nobody got mad at him, but it took me a lot longer to figure out what Mom did, because it was usually stuff on the telephone.

Devon Bostick

WallsFightMeMomEarlyMad

Freedom is the core of all human progress. It believes that nothing's given to us, but if you're willing to work hard. If you're willing to compete, the American dream is there for you.

Connie Mack IV

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My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

Bob Dylan

BetterPersonSoundAlwaysSongs

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.

William Hurt

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Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.

Pink

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