The Uruguayans have a sort of purity. I don't know where they got it, and I doubt even if they know from where they got it. Perhaps they didn't kill off their major population.
Martin AmisI'm afraid the negative things are always the great subjects. Failure is much more interesting than success.
Martin AmisI think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves.
Martin AmisLanguage 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.
Martin Amis