British - Author | June 21, 1948 -
What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.
Ian Mcewan
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I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
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I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.
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Not being boring is quite a challenge.
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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
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I'm quite good at not writing.
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Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.
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I often don't read reviews.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
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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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