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Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

- Martin Amis
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All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.

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.'

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

I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.

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.

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

Watching an adaptation of your novel can be a violent experience: seeing your old jokes suddenly thrust at you can be alarming. But I started to enjoy 'Money' very quickly, and then I relaxed.

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.

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Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.