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Sunday, January 21, 2007

Martin Amis Answers His Mail



Excerpts from his answers to emails sent to The Independent:

The phrase "horrorism", which you invented to describe 9/11, is unintentionally hilarious. Have you got any more?

Yes, I have. Here's a good one (though I can hardly claim it as my own): the phrase is "fuck off".




How do you think you might have ended up spending your working life if your father hadn't been a famous writer?

Well, that would depend on what my father had chosen to do instead. If he had been a postman, then I would have been a postman. If he had been a travel agent, then I would have been a travel agent. Do you get the idea?
Posted at: 1/21/2007 10:05:00 AM