Martin Amis Quotes About Language

• 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

• It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language.

  Martin Amis

  Language, Terrible, English Language

• 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

  Shopping, Family And Friends, Novelists

  Martin Amis (2017). “The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016”, p.16, Random House

• Yo diría que los escritores que me gustan y en los que confío tienen en la base de su prosa algo que se llama la frase inglesa. Gran parte de la escritura moderna me parece un uso deprimido del lenguaje. Una vez lo llamé "prosa de voto de pobreza". No, dame al rey en su casa. Dame a Updike.

  Martin Amis

  Kings, Writing, Giving

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