Martin Amis
Related I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12. MALLORY ORTBERG I'd missed this so much, this simple pleasure. The sensation of a heavy shaft sliding over my tongue... JOSEPHINE MYLES The only time he made a pass at me, I upended a jug of water over him and walked out. CHICO MARX JESSICA KHOURY ZADIE SMITH E.M. FORSTER I've actually traveled quite a bit with various authors. Judith Miller and I toured the highland... TRACIE PETERSON That's what comedians do, comedians talk a lot. I laugh at it, too. He's never hung out with me. I d... ERICK DAMPIER E.L. JAMES I've played with him for eight years and a bit, and he helped me win a lot of hockey games with game... CURTIS JOSEPH YIDDISH PROVERB I want to compete and want to beat him, but he also helps me out a lot. I play very comfortably when... ANDY BENSON HENRY KRAVIS BILL BRYSON I love him, but if he doesn't show that he loves me, I will move on with my life without him, even i... VICTORIA ANGULO I've never worked with a producer who called me 'Auntie' before, ... I love Mario, and he's turned o... CECE WINANS ERIK ESTRADA Every time I wrestle him I have a hard time with him. He constantly moves in and out. With a lot of ... COLE KONRAD MADELINE MILLER Even though the media has dubbed me America's most controversial writer, occasionally my words find ... BOBBY W. MILLER I hate Lou Dobbs with a passion. He is my mortal enemy. If i find him, I will destroy him. He owes m... BRENT MUSBURGER I was concerned with him lugging in there and 'would he rate'? He struggled a bit with the track, bu... JERRY BAILEY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW He laughs and pulls out a big Ziploc bag of something dark and round. Cookies!CARRIE JONES Sometimes the anxiety takes over and I can’t seem to fathom the love he gives me. DOMINIC RICCITELLO C.S. LEWIS TERRY EAGLETON E.L. JAMES ARNOLD PALMER KAREN MARIE MONING Will knelt beside me. I wished I could have taken a holo of him at that moment and played it for him... CAMERON STRACHER His hands moved over my back, frantic. His lips were everywhere, my jaw, my chin, the length of my n... KERRY LONSDALE SUZANNE COLLINS SIMONE ELKELES One evening, at the time of the Six-Day War, I [Christopher Hitchens] had my wicked way with a lovel... CRAIG BROWN BECCA FITZPATRICK My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a... P. L. TRAVERS LORD CHESTERFIELD SOURCE UNKNOWN SUZANNE COLLINS BECCA FITZPATRICK JULIE KAGAWA CASSANDRA CLARE CARRIE ANN INABA He pulled out his wallet and showed me photos of himself with long hair, ... He told me he had been ... HAROLD BROWN He pulled out his wallet and showed me photos of himself with long hair, ... He told me he had been ... HAROLD BROWN The third and fourth set, I felt I was a bit living on the edge with my serve. He was getting a lot ... ANDRE AGASSI love SANOBER KHAN EDEN HAZARD HALSEY Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was ju... RACHEL PLATTEN No author's writing more influenced my own than that of Robert Louis Stevenson. My first steampu... JAMES BLAYLOCK My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this bec... MICHELLE TEMPLET EMMA CLINE KATJA MILLAY I can only speak for myself, but when I was growing up in Memphis - and having the Martin Luther Kin... KATORI HALL My son, Sanjay, and I discuss a lot of things. Like, he gives me feedback on my films and what his f... VIJAY My dear cousin means the world to me. He is my only ally and I lost him. Deep in my heart I know he ... CELIA MCMAHON (THE BOOKEATER'S DAUGHTER) SUSANE COLASANTI Mainly, he caught me with my arms flying all over the place. I concentrated a lot on keeping my elbo... CHUY LIRA We kiss for a long time, a good long time. I don’t even notice that it’s cold and I forget to be... CARRIE JONES For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA CYNTHIA HAND He showed me some guts tonight. They kinda made us work for this win and my horse responded when I a... WALLY HENNESSEY DON RICKLES EDEN HAZARD I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ... BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power. SHESH NATH VERNWAL I was riding him and he kind of faced me a little bit. He grabbed my leg and tried to roll over, but... KYLE REILLY I know how long it takes me to draw a page, how long it takes me to complete a project, how long I c... RAINA TELGEMEIER GEORGE BERNARD SHAW GEORGE BERNARD SHAW SUKARNO I think the way I look at things gives me a different perspective. I'm most valuable when I work... CRAIG MCCAW TANA FRENCH Luis is always tough. He always comes out hard and really goes out for me and I always have a nice t... CONNOR MCDONALD KATIE MCGARRY D.H. LAWRENCE MAGIC JOHNSON I got a question for you, gonna come over here and kiss me with those pretty lips? AGATHA BIRD He is my other eyes that can see above the clouds; my other ears that hear above the winds. He is th... GENE HILL ABDUL QADEER KHAN Though he slay me, yet I will praise him," he began softly, his voice a little tremulous at first. "... JENNIFER FREITAG KATIE MCGARRY Even someone who works with me, like this girl who works with me, her name is Sue. She lives with me... CAPRICE BOURRET MARIA CALLAS ANONYMOUS Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath and life w... MARTINE LEAVITT GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI NANETTE L. AVERY I play with great players. I just keep going to the net and (my teammates) will find me. Sometimes i... LANCE GALBRAITH GASTON LEROUX ROBERT BYRD CHRIS EVANS RICHARD HOVEY NANETTE L. AVERY SARAH J. MAAS I'm definitely ready for that to happen, 'cause I always want to play more minutes. Ron was my mento... DANNY GRANGER MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sometimes when I can no longer endure the strain, I beg him to tell me what is wrong with me and hel... NATSUME SōSEKI
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I feel shock splinter through him, his body going rigid. Then he relaxes, melting into me, stepping ... 
I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. W... 
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. 
I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can’t love me. 
The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown. 
I have, in my partner George Roberts, a person who is the most wonderful man in the world to me. He&... 
I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and '... 
My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let m... 
The heat rose up my neck, wrapped fingers over my face. His hair fell around me, and I could smell n... 
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he se... 
I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound.... 
I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary top... 
My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time ... 
He swapped the fistful of my shirt for one in my hair, and ground his mouth against mine. 
Orange? Like Effie's hair?" I say.
I'm willing to find out what this thing is going on between us. Are you?"
Patch's eyes grazed me with silent heat. My reflection swirled in them, red hair and lips aflame. I ... 
For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the de... 
Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to ... 
Is that a yes?" he asked, pushing his fingers through my hair, fanning it out around my shoulders an... 
I kissed him. His arms slid around me and drew me close, and we stayed like that for a while, my han... 
He clung to her more tightly, knotting his hands in her hair, trying to tell her, with the press of ... 
My poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my h... 
Jose Mourinho and I get along well. I've lots of respect for him. He gives me a lot of confidenc... 
I consider myself someone who takes a lot of beauty risks, and I've realized what I liar I am. I... 
Hatred was easy. The permutations constant over the years: A stranger at a fair who palmed my crotch... 
He's kissing me. And when he does, part of me is lost. But it's the part that's twisted and mangled ... 
Physical attraction that strong is addictive. And knowing that kind of magic isn’t just a fantasy ... 
And then I can feel what he feels. He’s waited such a long time for this moment. He loves how I fe... 
Johnny Carson was a big influence on me - all of those shows I did with him over the years, like, 10... 
The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees me... 
I liked Kennedy. So far, he is the only American president who could talk with me and with whom I co... 
Breslin gives me his wise-teacher smile, which is kind and crinkly and would make me feel warm all o... 
Noah rests both of his hands below my butt, and before I can move closer to him, he lifts me and pro... 
And down his mouth comes to my mouth! and down His bright dark eyes come over me, like a hood Upon m... 
When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me u... 
Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand a... 
His eyes spark as his gaze dips to my cleavage, and this gives me courage. I shift forward and slip ... 
My poor sight gives me an advantage. I can't see the people in the audience who are scratching their... 
I don't need a hair stylist, my pillow gives me a new hairstyle every morning. 
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles an... 
Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... 
He fills me with horror and I do not hate him. How can I hate him, Raoul? Think of Erik at my feet, ... 
One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'... 
The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so gr... 
I am fevered with the sunset,
I am fretful with the bay,
For the wander-thirst is on me
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I saw only a flash of green and gold before the warmth of Tamlin’s body slammed into me and our li... 
Come on," Cole said. He looked back over his shoulder at Mr. Brisbane, who was looking at me with a ... 
Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fictio... 
You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star 
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. 
... all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which r... 
Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way. 
Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more o... 
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that ... 
Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of t... 
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the soc... 
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God'... 
When I'm making a film, I'm the audience. 
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. 
When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this:... 
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism. 
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of cor... 
There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our syst... 
My idea of a good night out is staying in. 
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't. 
When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way ... 
Nothing good ever comes of violence. 
What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in th... 
I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremel... 
I am not an enemy of Adventism. 
Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same... 
The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door. 
Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really w... 
I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.