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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
Screenwriter
Writer
Belfast
Ireland
Good
Quite
Writing

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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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Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence
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The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.
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It was thought, perception, sensations that interested her, the conscious mind as a river through time, and how to represent its onward roll, as well as all the tributaries that would swell it, and the obstacles that would divert it. If only she could reproduce the clear light of a summer's morning.
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He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
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From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.
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He was looking at her with amused suspicion. There was something between them, and even she had to acknowledge that a tame remark about the weather sounded perverse.
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Finally, you had to measure yourself by other people - there really was nothing else. every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.
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I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.
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These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.
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Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.
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No one knew about the squirrel’s skull beneath Briony bed, but no one wanted to know.
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When anything can happen, everything matters.
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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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The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.
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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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Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.
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