“Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got m...” — Martin Amis Quote

“Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body.”

“I think: you deserve to be what you are if you could bare to get that way. You must have seen it coming. And now there's nothing for you here. No one will protect you, and people won't see any reason not to do you harm.”

“Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.”

“Action-adventure, that genre, only works for me if you can care about the characters. If the hero's not taking some kind of a journey, then there are no stakes - and no stakes, then you don't care if he lives or dies, wins or loses.”

“Kobe is probably an idol for so many players. He was such a great player so you wanted to be like Kobe. He's a legend that never dies.”

“The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.”