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I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'

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
Revolting
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Stories

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You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
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All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of 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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And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.
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...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.
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It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.
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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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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her.
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She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began. She needed to contemplate with eyes closed the full richness of what she had lost, what she had given away, and to anticipate the new regime.
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I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.
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She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to ignore.
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Someone once asked me If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you? And I said No, thanks, I think I'll stick at this.
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Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?
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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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When people ask, Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?, I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.
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Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.
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The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
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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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All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing and occasional genocide are preferable to an invasion, they should be sombre in their view.
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