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I'm quite good at not writing.

Ian Mcewan

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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
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Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
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Belfast
Ireland
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I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in fact, I think the profession rose quite honorably to the task. Novelists require a slower turnover, I mean, in time.
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I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.
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The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.
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Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.
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Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution.
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And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.
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The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her novella--and was necessary to it.
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Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.
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He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion possible futures the pickiness of pure chance and physical laws seemed like freedom from the scheming of a gloomy god.
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It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.
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