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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In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love but dispassionate and icily rational.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel – especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
- Ian McEwan