"I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive."
― Ian Mcewan
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Funny
― Ian Mcewan
More From Ian Mcewan
- "London in the ’70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right."
- "The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There’s a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject."
- "A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew."
More In Funny
- "One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute."― William Feather
- "Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn’t get serious with people. They don’t expect it from you, and they don’t want to see it. You’re not entitled to be serious, you’re a clown."― Fanny Brice
- "I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party."― Ron White