Martin Amis Quotes

You can't imbibe someone's success by f*cking them.

Girls didn't really take much interest in me until I was about 14. But I knew how to talk to them very quickly. What I figured out - that my friends didn't - was you have to talk to women like you're not constantly trying to have sex with them. That seemed to work.

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

What makes us really, truly successful over the long term has a ton to do with our social interactions and the influence we do or don't have with other people.

My preference for female company is based for the most part on the fact that women are more self-aware than men, in my experience.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

Conversation makes one what he is.

Girl talk. That thing I've always been so bad at.

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.

The school of relationships is where you learn self-knowledge. I just don't know how you could learn it sitting alone in the desert on a rock by yourself. You have to see where you fail at it. And that confrontation with your own ability - "I was again not able to love" - those are the teachable moments.

No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.

I think the reason that a lot of people have to have a lot of people around is just about being smart and knowing what you want to talk about.

The consequence of a very free commerce between the sexes, and of their living much together, will often terminate in intrigues and gallantry.

I'm good in bed, actually, and I think I could learn to be a good communicator, too. The only trouble with that is it leads to marriage.

I think the key to the start of any good relationship is to remember how the other person likes their coffee.

I still find it tough to be around girls because I always say the wrong thing. If a friend asks me if I look fat in something, I'll be honest and say 'Yeah' when she does.

Attention gets you the opposite sex sometimes.

Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.

People love to talk, so let them have fun talking, I think they have an interesting, wonderful connection, so you knowWhat does dating mean? I don't know. I couldn't say. People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.

Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others. Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot. ES: What, and don't make you talk? AW: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person.

It is not until you have the courage to engage in human relationships that you grow.

Success is measured by the memories you create.

[At a young age] I had learned enough about women to know not to pressure them when they're thinking something out; they'll tell you when they're ready.

I don't think anyone can teach you how to be a man but a woman. You only learn by learning what they need.

By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.