Martin Amis
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"Martin Louis Amis" is an English novelist. His best-known novels are Money (novel)/Money (1984) and London Fields (novel)/London Fields (1989). He has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience (Martin Amis)/Experience and has been listed for the Booker Prize twice to date (shortlisted in 1991 for Time's Arrow (novel)/Time's Arrow and longlisted in 2003 for Yellow Dog (novel)/Yellow Dog). Amis served as the Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester until 2011. The Times named him in 2008 as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.

Amis's work centres on the apparent excesses of late-capitalist Western society, whose perceived Absurdism/absurdity he often satirises through grotesque caricature; he has been portrayed as a master of what the New York Times called "the new unpleasantness". Inspired by Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Joyce, as well as by his father Kingsley Amis, Amis himself went on to heavily influence many successful British novelists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including Will Self and Zadie Smith.

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Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

I am a novelist.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

I hire tea by the tea bag.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.

More will mean worse.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.