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Ian Mcewan


British
June 21, 1948
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I'm quite good at not writing.


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Not being boring is quite a challenge.


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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.


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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?


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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.


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Tags: God Really Our
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.
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Tags: Great Like Think
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.
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Tags: Work More World
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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Tags: God You More
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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London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.
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Tags: Politics You Who