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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

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
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Strikes
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Attitude
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She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, roe to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance.
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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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The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
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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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Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.
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I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.
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Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.
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For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.
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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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Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?
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Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.
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She loved him, though not at this particular moment.
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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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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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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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It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
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I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.
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Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence
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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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