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Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.


Ian Mcewan


#believe #comes #god #i #moment

Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.


Ian Mcewan


#booker #great #i #i think #immune

Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.


Ian Mckellen


#actor #also #always #asked #become

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.


Herman Melville


#goodness #more #sorrow #than #too

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.


Ian Mcewan


#conscience #correct #done #error #especially

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.


Ian Mcewan


#element #exist #greatest #know #perhaps

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.


Ian Mcewan


#arguing #art #arts #conversely #discoveries

Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.


Ian Mcewan


#days #five #hundred #i #people

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.


Ian Mcewan


#culture #literary #missing #our #quite

The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.


Ian Mcewan


#best #best way #change #climate #climate change






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