A number of younger writers saw in him an example of how to escape the crabbed confines of English letters, and sought to write with a similar freedom, irreverence, and energy. Money did for the writers of the 1980s what Lucky Jim had done for their counterparts a generation earlier.
Authors Martin Amis
Isabel Fonseca
John Banville
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I wish I could write like Amis. He strikes me as the most Dickensian writer around, in terms of style. He’s astonishingly good [in his] native command of sentence structure. On the other hand, he often forgets that he has to tell a story.
Aravind Adiga
Martin Amis’s opinions on others
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Love of life, like all human talents, weakens with age. But love of language, in his case, never did begin to fade.
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Updike was congenitally unembarrassable and we are the beneficiaries of that. He took the novel onto another plane of intimacy: he took us beyond the bedroom and into the bathroom.
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Her world is ignited by belief. She believes in everything: true love, veridical visions, magic, monsters, pagan spirits. She doesn’t tell you how the household cat is looking, or even feeling: she tells you what it is thinking.
Kingsley Amis
Martin Amis
John Updike
The Sea, The Sea
House of Meetings