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“What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?”

Ian Mcewan · Attitude

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Ian Mcewan

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

Courage

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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.

Forgiveness

Ian Mcewan

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Imagination

Ian Mcewan

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.

Education