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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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Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.
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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
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You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
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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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He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
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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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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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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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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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There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness.
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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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The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
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He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
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I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared to what followed.
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Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution.
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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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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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There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.
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I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.
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