Ian Mcewan Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
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What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
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I never read about photography.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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My mother taught me to read.
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Money often costs too much.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.
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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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I don't read any reviews, so I'm oblivious to what they have to say. I'm completely unaware. It's fantastic.
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The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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I would read all day if I could.
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Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.
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Sleep now, Alone in the sleeves of grief, Listening to clothes falling And your flesh touching God...
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I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.
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I often don't read reviews.
