Martin Amis Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. August 25, 1949
Birthday: August 25
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.
source: Martin Amis (2017). “The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016”, p.16, Random House
topic: Shopping, Family And Friends, Novelists, Artifice, Correspondence, Double Life, Road Sign
