Quote by Martin Amis

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what

Summary

This quote reflects the speaker's preference for exploring and relating to characters from the working class rather than the middle class in fiction. The speaker finds the working class to be full of wit, inventiveness, and an abundance of poetry. While many literary works often focus on the lives and experiences of the middle class, the speaker is more interested in the richness and unique qualities they find within the working class.

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