Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated… — 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
