Ian McEwan

I don't hold grudges.

— Ian Mcewan

“Now human blubber draped his efforts.”

— Ian McEwan

“Not blemishes. Adornments.”

— Ian McEwan

I don't really believe in evil at all.

— Ian Mcewan

I'm quite good at not writing.

— Ian Mcewan

Not being boring is quite a challenge.

— Ian Mcewan

“Work - the ultimate badge of health.”

— Ian McEwan

“Possession, belonging, repetition.”

— Ian McEwan

We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth

— Ian Mcewan

“It's beautiful here and we're still unhappy”

— Ian McEwan

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

— Ian Mcewan

Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.

— Ian Mcewan

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

— Ian Mcewan

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

— Ian Mcewan

“Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.”

— Ian McEwan

“This, as they used to say, was the side on which her bread was buttered.”

— Ian McEwan

“He knew from long experience that a letter sent in fury merely put a weapon into the hands of your enemy”

— Ian McEwan

It is shaming sometimes how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum’s sake, has ever slowed his…

— Ian Mcewan

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

— Ian Mcewan

She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had…

— Ian Mcewan

“I said I didn’t like tricks, I liked life as I knew it recreated on the page. He said it wasn’t possible…

— Ian McEwan

The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing…

— Ian Mcewan

“All that's really required is that anything the state does in relation to the arts is laid on the table where we…

— Ian McEwan

“God's love may take the form of wrath. It can show itself to us as a calamity. This is the difficult lesson…

— Ian McEwan

“When love dies and a marriage lies in ruins, the first casualty is honest memory, decent, impartial recall of the past. Too…

— Ian McEwan

“These names mean nothing to Perowne. But he understands how eminent poets, like senior consultants, live in a watchful, jealous world in…

— Ian McEwan

From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person…

— Ian Mcewan

“In Leon's life, or rather, in his account of his life, no one was mean-spirited, no one schemed or lied or betrayed.…

— Ian McEwan

But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to…

— Ian Mcewan

You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify…

— Ian Mcewan

“Who could ever reckon up the damage done to love and friendship and all hopes of happiness by a surfeit or depletion…

— Ian McEwan

“I was a born empiricist. I believed that writers were paid to pretend, and where appropriate should make use of the real…

— Ian McEwan

“She left the cafe, and as she walked along the Common she felt the distance widen between her and another self, no…

— Ian McEwan

“Robbie and Cecilia had been making love for years - by post. In their coded exchanges they had drawn close, but how…

— Ian McEwan

“In theory, they have equal power over each other Leave this house. Never come back. Or I'll bring the police down on…

— Ian McEwan

“It's at moments like these in a game that the essentials of his character are exposed: narrow, ineffectual, stupid—and morally so. The…

— Ian McEwan

“But hidden drawers, lockable diaries and cryptographic systems could not conceal from Briony the simple truth: she had no secrets. Her wish…

— Ian McEwan

“And foe-of-convenience, the United States, barely the hope of the world, guilty of torture, helpless before its sacred text conceived in an…

— Ian McEwan

“Jer,u tome sigurno i jest stvar:bit će bolji liječnik jer je čitao književnost.Kakva sve duboka objašnjenja njegova preinačena senzibilnost može iščitati iz…

— Ian McEwan

“It was not always the case that a large minority comprising the weakest members of society wore special clothes, were freed from…

— Ian McEwan