It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you down in the center of the earth.
Martin AmisAll novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.
Martin AmisMy belief is that everything that's written about you is actually secondary showbiz nonsense, and you shouldn't take any notice of it.
Martin AmisInsects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.
Martin AmisThe egotism of people who are eminent without being in the least distinguished and somehow feeling that's their due - that seems to me to be a peculiarly English phenomenon.
Martin AmisDickens 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.
Martin Amis