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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Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.
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When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
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Fidelity is surely our highest aim, but a translation is not made with tracing paper. It is an act of critical interpretation. Let me insist on the obvious: Languages trail immense, individual histories behind them, and no two languages, with all their accretions of tradition and culture, ever dovetail perfectly. They can be linked by translation, as a photograph can link movement and stasis, but it is disingenuous to assume that either translation or photography, or acting for that matter, are representational in any narrow sense of the term. Fidelity is our noble purpose, but it does not have much, if anything, to do with what is called literal meaning. A translation can be faithful to tone and intention, to meaning. It can rarely be faithful to words or syntax, for these are peculiar to specific languages and are not transferable.
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.
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I often don't read reviews.
