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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress. ↗


— Ian Mcewan


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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. ↗


— Ian Mcewan


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My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me. ↗


— Ian Mcewan


#acute #affectionate #articulate #deal #drinking

My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively. ↗


— Ian Mcewan


#acute #affectionate #articulate #deal #drinking

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


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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. ↗


— Ian Mcewan


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


— Ian Mcewan


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


— Ian Mcewan


#culture #literary #missing #our #quite

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely. ↗


— Ian Mcewan


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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work. ↗


— Ian Mcewan


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