Martin Amis Quotes About Hell

Quotes about: Hell

• Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at, and squeezed into this funny shape. Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move, and now the flukey play is cramped and slow, a dream of constraint and cross-purpose, with each move forced, all pieces pinned and skewered and zugzwanged... But here and there we see these figures who appear to run on the true lines, and they are terrible examples. They're rich, usually.

  Martin Amis

  Running, Dream, Moving

• Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)

  Martin Amis

  Moving, Games, Chess

  Martin Amis (2010). “Money”, p.119, Random House

• You can't be up the reader's ass, as many a writer I think is - cute as hell, ingratiating as hell. But that's not loving the reader in the right way. That's toadying to the reader.

  Martin Amis

  Cute, Thinking, Way

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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