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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
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Film Producer
Novelist
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Belfast
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I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.
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Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.
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I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have no difficulty assimilating it into what you’ve done before.
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The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
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...the world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen.
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I'm sorry to say that far worse things have happened and the literature of the Holocaust is a witness to the capacity of the novel as a form.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Not being boring is quite a challenge.
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I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
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He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
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Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
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Looking after children is one of the ways of looking after yourself.
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Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don’t think I can blame the heat.
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She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else?
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It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.
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When people have supernatural beliefs I think they should be respected but there is no reason why they need to impose them on others.
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Let his name be cleared and everyone else adjust their thinking. He had put in time, now they must do the work. His business was simple. Find Cecilia and love her, marry her and live without shame.
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