After Martin Amis died, newspapers filled with reminders of the celebrated writer’s more memorable thoughts.
In 2021, he told the Guardian he had been finding it hard to finish things during the pandemic but doubted this was due to Covid. “It’s just age,” he said. “In the old days it came quicker, the prose. Now it’s a battle.”
Amis was 71 at the time, but the number of people who mentioned this quote to me last week suggests his words resonate well beyond his own generation.
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