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Form Quotes by Ian Mcewan
- I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant…
- A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her…
- Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?
- In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now…
- How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or…
- And she did not miss his presence so much as his voice on the phone. Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was…
- I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and…
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