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“Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.”

Quote by Martin Amis

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Martin Amis is a British novelist known for his satirical and darkly humorous writing. His works often explore the moral dilemmas of modern society and the complexities of individual identity. Born on August 25, 1949, Amis is considered an important figure in British literature. more

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“Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.”

Thinking Looks Seems Dies Grows Accepting Fine Habit Mirrors Exception Funny Things Old Habits

Author:Martin Amis

“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.”

Firsts Novel First Time Awards

Book:The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016

Source: The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016

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

America Class Hero England Working Class Policemen Traitor Working Class Hero

Author:Martin Amis

“It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.”

Mother Father Left Difficult Impossible

Author: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.”

World Should Stills Ideas Country America Leader Democracy Middle Decided Ancient Average Divides

Author:Martin Amis

“It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.”

Thinking World Firsts Facts Certain Half Path Century Fashion Becoming Horror Response Twentieth Century Gloom Great Fashion

Author: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.”

Years Mother Father Style Minimalist Lenient

Book:The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016

Source: The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016

“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.”

Doe Form Language Stuff Study Lists Novelists Shopping Family And Friends Menus Correspondence Artifice Double Life Road Sign

Book:The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016

Source: The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016

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

Individual Christianity Claims Islam Judaism Medieval Fundamentalist

Author:Martin Amis

“Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.”

Littles House Comedy Feet Butlers Midget

Book:I Never Met a Kid I Liked

Source: I Never Met a Kid I Liked