“You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.” Quote by Scott Pelley
“My 12-year-old daughter said to me, "Enough with the subtitles, Daddy, for crying out loud." Because they always seem to cloud the issue rather than clarify it.” YearsSaidEnoughSeemsIssuesCryDaughterCloudsLoudDaddySubtitles Author:Martin Amis
“The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect on the world.” WorldWantEffectsSatirist Author:Martin Amis
“No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. And the great satirists, like Swift and Dickens, tend to write about abuses and injustices that have already been partially corrected - you write about it after it's over.” WritingI CanNovelChangedAbuseInjusticeDickensSatirist Author:Martin Amis
“I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just turn up the volume dial. Which is a technique of science fiction, apart from anything else.” TurnsFictionScience FictionTechniqueTendenciesVolumeSatiristCrank Author:Martin Amis
“Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on.” WritingKindNovelLate Author:Martin Amis
“Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator - like the great Victorians, a realist in his way. But he isn't at all like that. His genre is actually more like a fairy tale - weird transformations, long voyages from which people come back altered, parental mysteries, semi-magical twists.” PeopleWayLongSocialMysteryCenturyTransformationTalesGenreFairyFairy TaleTwistsMisunderstoodTwentieth CenturyVoyagesAlteredCommentatorsRealistParentalDickensGenre Is Author:Martin Amis
“When policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile.” EnglandPrisonPolicemen Author:Martin Amis
“People look at fame and feel deprived if they haven't got it, feeling that this is a basic, almost a human right, a civil right. And also feel the same way about wealth, I suppose - why haven't I got it?” PeopleIfsWayFeelsHumansLooksFeelingsWealthHavensFameDeprived Author:Martin Amis
“America still is the center of the world, and what happens in the American economy matters everywhere.” WorldStillsMatterHappensAmericaEconomyAmerican EconomyCenter Of The World Author:Martin Amis
“People all over this country are shouting at each other. And what we need to do is bring people together to work on the agreement where there is broad consensus and that's what I intend to do.” PeopleNeedsCountryTogetherAgreementBroadsConsensusShouting Author:Bernie Sanders