As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.
Ian McEwan
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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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Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.
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