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Martin Amis MARTIN AMIS
The Art of Fiction No. 151
Interviewed by Francesca Riviere
Issue 146, Spring 1998
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AMIS
It's interesting when you're doing signing sessions with other writers and you look at the queues at each table and you can see definite human types gathering there.

INTERVIEWER
Which type is in your queue?

AMIS
Well, I did one with Roald Dahl and quite predictable human divisions were observable. For him, a lot of children, a lot of parents of children. With Julian Barnes, his queue seemed to be peopled by rather comfortable, professional types. My queue is always full of, you know, wild-eyed sleazebags and people who stare at me very intensely, as if I have some particular message for them. As if I must know that they've been reading me, that this dyad or symbiosis of reader and writer has been so intense that I must somehow know about it.
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