Martin Amis Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

  Martin Amis

  Book, Years, Different

• Amis is acutely, vibrantly sensitive to the different registers of laughter. He knows that it can be the most affirming and uniquely human sound, and also the most sinister and animalistic one. He understands every note of every octave that separates the liberating shout of mirth from the cackle of a bully or the snigger of a sadist.

  Martin Amis

  Laughter, Book, Bully

• Richard's bookshelves weren't alphabetized. He never had time to alphabetize them. He was always too busy- looking for books he couldn't find.

  Martin Amis

  Book, Busy, Too Busy

  Martin Amis (1995). “The Information”

• When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She is off to one side, always off to one side, with a book, with a scheme or a project or an enterprise.

  Martin Amis

  Cousin, Memories, Book

  "Experience". Book by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. 2000.

• 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

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Martin Amis: Only brain injury could make me write for children" by Benedicte Page, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2011.

• Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.

  Martin Amis

  Book, Past, Years

  "The age of horrorism (part three)" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2006.

• I think it's likely that the civilizing effect of literature has done most of the work, and still continues to do. Look at Steven Pinker's book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. It proves beyond any shadow of doubt that violence has declined dramatically throughout the centuries. There are various reasons for it: the rise of the state, Leviathan, the monopoly of violence, children's rights, animal rights. They're all positive signs.

  Martin Amis

  Book, Angel, Animal

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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