It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.
Martin AmisHe was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any right, had any business being like this. A car in the street. Why? Why cars? This is what an artist has to be: harassed to the point of insanity or stupefaction by first principles.
Martin AmisI think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves.
Martin AmisWhen we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.
Martin Amis