Will Martin
Will Martin
Will Martinis a New Zealand-born classical crossover singer...
kings writing giving
I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence. An awful lot of modern writing seems to me to be a depressed use of language. Once, I called it "vow-of-poverty prose." No, give me the king in his countinghouse. Give me Updike.
laughter forgiving
Laughter always forgives.
typewriters new-life acquire
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
hands careers america
America is proud of what it does to its writers, the way it breaks and bedevils them, rendering them deluded or drunken or dead by their own hands. To overpower its tender spirits makes America feel tough. Careers are generally short.
might
Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.
consciousness states terrible
He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness.
father doubt announcements
My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.
shining trying across-the-universe
So if you ever felt something behind you, when you weren't even one, like welcome heat, like a bulb, like a sun, trying to shine right across the universe - it was me. Always me. It was me. It was me.
sunset hair giving
The only writer who gives me unfeigned pleasure is P.G. Wodehouse. And even him I find a bit heavy. He takes a lot out of me. Scratching my hair, with soft whistles, with lips aquiver, I frown over Sunset at Blandings.
curves careers usual
Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
language terrible english-language
It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language.
names knows
We all have names we don't know about.
belief nonsense written
My belief is that everything that's written about you is actually secondary showbiz nonsense, and you shouldn't take any notice of it.
walks soulful
Don't I ever do anything else but take soulful walks down the Bayswater Road, I thought, as I walked soulfully down the Baywater Road.