This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling.
Interpretation
Finding joy and fulfillment in writing reflects deep passion and devotion.
In this quote, Martin Amis emphasizes the profound love and dedication he has for writing, portraying it as an essential part of his life that brings him immense satisfaction and purpose. The act of writing is not just a task for him; it's a source of joy that he eagerly anticipates each day, underscoring the relationship between passion and fulfillment in one's pursuits.
In practice
Sharing this quote in a creative writing workshop to inspire participants.
Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls.
Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark - spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving.
You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other's otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full *contact* - all that?
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.'
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.
Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One flaw: sometimes, early on, she would tell me things designed to make me think less of my mother, and I would wave her away, saying, Jane, this just backfires and makes me think less of you.
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred.
Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
Maybe what a gay icon is, is a person who is rooted for β in other words, cheered on β by people who feel different.
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