Ian McEwan's Advice for Aspiring Writers

Ian McEwan works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999.

In this interview, he talks about the importance of reading. He says it will help writers become conscious of their writing.