Martin Amis and Elmore Leonard interview (1999)

Authors Martin Amis and Elmore Leonard discuss their writing styles and influences.
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[@heathkitchen4315]

“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it” -Leonard

[@cougar231000]

Not Always a good advice for everyone, That's Just the style he borrowed from Hemingway, it's shouldn't be mandatory...

[@NostalgiNorden]

@@cougar231000 Fuck off.

[@simonperry8569]

Great stuff, thanks for uploading. Two writers at opposite ends of the spectrum: one obsessed with style and the other obsessed with plot and narrative. Never thought I would see the two in a room together. Fascinating.

[@simianinc]

Really? Which is which? I'd argue that they're both obsessed with style.

[@ItsameAlex]

amis style, leonard narrative

[@anthonyperry7296]

With unashamed intellect martin Amis masks his fear.

[@terracomm1]

thank you for the post - just finishing. good training for the writers; or perhaps for those who cannot but write. Amis: "you write 'til you drop."

[@postmodernpictures]

Love it. These guys are for real. They know how to write a sentence.

[@phoenixzappa7366]

They should, being writers

[@BluesmanBri]

The most marvellous interview. A timeless masterpieces

[@user-un6sb4kn2z]

Martin Amis is such a classy man. His conduct always amazes me. I bet he would be a great actor also.

[@CasperLCat]

Amis responds to the question of aging with a big abstract answer - death. Sorry, DEATH. Leonard’s answer is “a big prostate” - specific, concrete, comical.

[@vandolmatzis8146]

may they both rest in peace great authors

[@doublethink6996]

The irony when Charlie laughs at Martin's remark about love improving sex. Charlie's like, "pffhaha are you serious? Love makes sex better?! Tell that to the so and so I groped this morning"

[@2Hot2]

@goblancas Right, he and his brother were too young to have even experienced sex, but they're really looking forward to it because of all the media hype, so when their father tells them of the importance of love they can only (mis)interpret it to mean it improves sex. On a side note, the above comment shows that a man can't say anything about sex without being accused of being a sexist/pervert by a simpleton.

[@2Hot2]

I love the way Amis cited Kurt Vonnegut, Saul Bellow and Elmore Leonard as great US authors instead of the usual boring examples.

[@LeoWhalen1933]

Which ones?

[@erwinwoodedge4885]

Amis is a BOSS!

[@WGreen-Author]

30 sec in. You are correct. O & O

[@guestguest7543]

Martin Amis is like if Nabokov and Beckett had a kid

[@roger8654]

Long winded monologues are a perfect example of writing that looks like writing.

[@kenlawrence1530]

rose is not needed in this exchange

[@KeithOtisEdwards]

When I used to watch the Charlie Rose show, every time I’d wish he’d shut up and just let the truly interesting person speak.

[@remotefaith]

Rose is never needed

[@evanhaning1552]

Is he behind bars now? That exhibitionist old predator should have been prosecuted as well as defrocked.

[@Brandon-tk2rw]

@evanhaning1552 calm down young lady

[@jmgresham93]

The lack of care for another human being is an abusive state.

[@jmgresham93]

What is the genre of these guy's works?

[@anthonyperry7296]

I do wonder if Martin spotted a niche in the market and aimed his novels about the lower classes to amuse and entertain the upper classes. I have enjoyed reading all of his books, even though he is well behaved.

[@lastunctives2095]

Anthony Perry Threw London Fields down a rubbish shute

[@kelman727]

I doubt he cares. Very little of his fiction is about the working class (not ‘lower class’).

[@joannaedwards6325]

Pardon my ignorance but until now I hadn't known who Martin Amis was. And now that I'm only halfway through this interview, Charlie asks questions that I would love to hear Elmore Leonard answer rather than be subjected to having to listen to that English fellow. Not going to run right out to get a book by him that's for sure. Can't wait to get to the library to check out a lot of Elmore Leonard's books.

[@LeoWhalen1933]

They are pretty much opposites. That's why this interview works. You certainly don't need to enjoy either.

[@billbollins]

Is Leonard Eric Clapton's long lost Father?

[@1jckinnick]

Who is Andrew Wiley?

[@douglasmilton2805]

Top literary agent. Nicknamed 'The Jackal'. He represents Martin Amis.

[@nobones4460]

Interviewer: What's the worst thing about getting older? Martin Amis: Getting closer to death, I'd say.

[@chadm9192]

Genius, squared

[@simonperry8569]

"You like to read." Thanks for that, Charlie. Go back to Texas and cook some ribs.

[@MrCalmwaters112]

Not long enough for me.....

[@anthonycosentino463]

He didn't hate his parents for naming him Elmore?

[@TheCheweeRevolutions]

I don't get the joke at 1:03. Are they laughing about Martin Amis's ability to always have the right words?

[@brunoarnabar7450]

At the way his words come out in a stylized fashion - he was supposed to be the interviewer but contrasted to Leonard (who is amazing but writes in common speech) Amis sounds more of an author than Leonard

[@harleyshoaf4916]

Rose needs to talk less

[@googleisgay3289]

If screwing the pooch deserves an endless definition in Tantalus's Bible (the closest thing to real Heaven), I'm pretty sure, like, it's gonna be, the dictionary written . . .

[@AJBell-dh6ry]

The real question remains... Was Charlie wearing pants during this?

[@josephhazzouri1373]

I’ve watched so many of these interviews and enjoyed them all but since I found out Charlie Rose is a creep to women the interviews have lost their charm.

[@anthonyperry7296]

I am surprised Amis was so defensive. He contradicted himself about slowing things down, and sayo=ing hes not good at slowing things down.

[@mirandac8712]

Also it isn't true. A lot of poetry actually speeds time up. Baudelaire, Eliot, the symbolists, the imagists, Ashbery, a lot of the Americans. Ginsburg is "fast," a lot of african-american poetry is fast, Gwendolyn Brooks is fast. Shakespeare. I think he just means poetry doesn't have plot. He mentions Henry James -- I can't imagine any literature, poetry or prose, moving more slowly than James.

[@charlespeterson3798]

O.K., Martin gets a pass, one time. God, I always have an image of him reading his work and rolling in the floor rug, looking at himself in the mirror, giggling. Hitchens? Meh.

[@ZanderPingu]

You always imagined God rolling around in the floor rug, looking at himself in the mirror, giggling. Whilst Christopher Hitchens looks on and thinks 'Meh'.