'Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.'
Quotes by Martin Amis
'No-one is going to sit down and read Bleak House to the family any more, but they can all huddle up happily in front of Charles Bronson.'