Famous Ian Mcewan Quotes

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
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The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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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.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
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By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
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I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
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