Top 247 Quotes & Sayings by Martin Amis - Page 5

I think a lot of people who read fiction are interested in subtlety. But they wouldn't like my stuff. It's a bit too violent for many tastes.

It's good fun to create an unpredictable character. When he comes into the room, I don't know what he's going to do - I have to find my way.

When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of pleasure. Some pleasure is difficult. It should be for the reader as well as the writer. But it has to be pleasure.

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.

Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on.

When policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile.

When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old enough now to identify them very strongly as being young - whereas before, of course they were young, because you were young. Now it's not like that.