"A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew."
― Ian Mcewan
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Experience
― Ian Mcewan
More From Ian Mcewan
- "I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building."
- "I don’t believe there’s any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force."
- "Politics is the enemy of the imagination."
More In Experience
- "Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."― Alfred North Whitehead
- "The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity."― Jimmy Carter
- "I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn’t a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now."― Jennifer Lopez