Martin Amis Father Quotations

My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.

Well, my father [Kingsley Amis] was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it was good that I began when I was young and bold and foolish, otherwise I'd have become too self-conscious and aware of the weight of not having written anything yet.

Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.

It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.

One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.

There isn't what my father called the cruising hostility of the English press - where they're looking around for something to attack. You don't feel that there's a great reservoir of resentment in the press as you do in England.

All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.