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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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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
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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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We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.
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You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual.
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It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I'm quite good at not writing.
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I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.
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But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.
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But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper.
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Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.
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These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality.
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Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution.
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When anything can happen, everything matters.
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Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.
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Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.
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Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach.
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Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.
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I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.
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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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