Quotes by Martin Amis

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
– Martin Amis
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
– Martin Amis
I hire tea by the tea bag.
– Martin Amis
Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
– Martin Amis
More will mean worse.
– Martin Amis
Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
– Martin Amis
Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
– Martin Amis
The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.
– Martin Amis
People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.
– Martin Amis
If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.
– Martin Amis
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.'
– Martin Amis