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There are no amateurs in the world of children.
Don DeLillo • White Noise
"Because novels come from long-marinated and unregarded anxiety, from silent anxiety…" - Martin Amis
People were, he warned, living “on a treadmill of continuous checking.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
I read new fiction, as I knew writers must, but the stuff that everyone was talking about back then was written by men - Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, John Updike, Philip Roth. I read them dutifully, and admired them, but I couldn’t see any way into that world.
(3) Niagara Falls All Over Again
morally passionate, passionately moral fiction was also ingenious and radiantly human fiction.”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
her aura of near-pathological inauthenticity.
Martin Amis • The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Vintage International)
His gallantry reliably extends to whatever is disadvantaged, homely, long-suffering, foreign or feminine. Kind to stragglers and also-rans, to well-meaning duds and worthies, and correspondingly cautious in his praise of acknowledged stars and masters, Updike’s view of twentieth-century literature is a levelling one. Talent, like life, should be av
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