A writer’s life is half ambition and half anxiety, and there has to be both. It is no good writing a novel and feeling fine, and it is no good writing a whole novel feeling miserable. It has to be both, that mixture of anxiety and ambition, and you get that with every novel, but more so when you write about these epics of human suffering. I felt that just as much when I wrote about the Gulag. Every writer knows what that is. The process goes… you have to think: ‘This novel I am writing is no good.’ Then you have to think: ‘All my novels are no good.’ And then, when you reach that point, you can begin. Martin Amis
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  1. Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.
  2. And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.
  3. The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.
  4. It is straightforward–and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.
  5. My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.
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