![]() It’s not about possessions or being rich or successful. I think this is one of the unsung forms of human happiness. It’s usually to do with confronting something difficult, breaking through, solving problems. I can’t plan for it, but every now and then it occurs: All barriers fall away, and I’m outside of myself, I forget where I am, I’m completely locked into the moment, all sense of time, desire, even affect, even emotion, is gone. McEwan: It happens to me only occasionally, and it’s accidental. HBR: There’s a passage in Saturday where the protagonist, a neurosurgeon, is operating in a state that psychologists would call “flow.” How do you achieve that in your work? ![]() His 15 works of fiction include Enduring Love, Atonement, Saturday, and the newly released Sweet Tooth. ![]() Ian McEwan says he became a writer by “being a reader.” His parents, who both left school at 14, insisted on weekly family visits to the library when he was a child and sent him to boarding school, where he discovered Iris Murdoch and Graham Greene. ![]()
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