Today is Ian McEwan’s 57th birthday. Here are a couple of quotations from this great novelist:
By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State’s crime when it sets out to crush that individuality.
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
And here’s a quote from his latest novel, Saturday. This is the voice of Theo, the 18-year-old son of the book’s main character, Henry Perowne.
When we go on about the big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible, with nothing getting better, nothing to look forward to. But when I think small, closer in - you know, a girl I just met, or this song we’re going to do with Chas, or snowboarding next month, then it looks great. So this is going to be my motto - think small.
Now go read his books!
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