Martin Amis Love Quotations

While making love, we often talk about money. I like it. I like that dirty talk

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has to not only love his characters - which you do, without even thinking about it, just as you love your children. But also to love the reader, and that's what I mean by the pleasure principle.

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.