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Ian McEwan

(b. 1948–)

English novelist and screenwriter

“You can tell a lot from a person’s nails. When a life starts to unravel, they’re among the first to go.”

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source: Saturday (Toronto: Random House, 2006), 186.

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medium: Fiction

“My ideal state as a reader when I’m reading other people is feeling I’m vaguely wasting my time when I’m not reading that novel.”

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source: Interview by Alexandra Alter, The Wall Street Journal, March 25, 2010.

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