Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn. - Martin Amis 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. - Martin Amis 3 Share Now -
Language 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 4 Share Now -