I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
My biggest fear, I think falling from a great height. If I want to keep myself awake at night I imagine I'm… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory? — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I read in announcements of deaths 'peacefully in his sleep' and I wonder how many of those are true. Maybe they are… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“Bernard was to remember this moment for the rest of his life. As they drank from their water bottles he was struck… — 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