Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“The age of clear answers was over. So was the age of characters and plots. Despite her journal sketches, she no longer… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“I read anything I saw lying around. Pulp fiction, great literature and everything in between - I gave them all the same… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“He did. He researched her. Someone told him that she had a special interest in John Milton. It did not take long… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“I craved a form of naive realism. I paid special attention, I craned my readerly neck whenever a London street I knew… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“You pull a book from the shelf and there was an invention... Almost like cooking, I thought sleepily. Instead of heat transforming… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“As you will see, we do not believe that artists have an obligation to strike up attitudes to the war. Indeed, they are wise… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“It is shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were partly visual, partly just a feeling… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Once, on a walk by a river- Eskdale in low reddish sunlight, with a dusting of snow- his daughter quoted to him an opening… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it's one of those cases of a microcosm giving you the whole world. Like a spode dinner plate. Or a single cell. Or,… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Who you get, and how it works out- there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“On Chesil Beach he could have called out to Florence, he could have gone after her. He did not know, or would not have… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
