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Ian Mcewan
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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
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Film Producer
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Belfast
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The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
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I often don't read reviews.
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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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Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense.
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Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.
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But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.
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It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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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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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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Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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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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Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.
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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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Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don’t think I can blame the heat.
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I read in announcements of deaths 'peacefully in his sleep' and I wonder how many of those are true. Maybe they are just conventional. I hope they are true whenever I read it of someone. [But] I would rather be awake. Peacefully awake, brim full of some calming drug that was seeing me out of the door, having said my farewells.
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You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
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