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title: "11 Littles Quotes By Ian McEwan"
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> [We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/we-know-so-little-about-each-other-we-lie-mostly-submerged-like-ice/)

[Ian Mcewan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf1/ian-mcewan-494_ice_we-know-so-little-about-each-other-we-li_1434602.png)

> [Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/writers-are-said-to-have-superstitions-and-little-rituals-readers/)

[Ian Mcewan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c9/ian-mcewan-494_books_writers-are-said-to-have-superstitions-a_1816820.png)

> [Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/oh-i-ve-become-immune-to-the-booker-i-think-we-need-something-a/)

[Ian Mcewan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/759/ian-mcewan-494_great_oh-i-ve-become-immune-to-the-booker-i-th_2573531.png)

> [The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/the-cost-of-oblivious-daydreaming-was-always-this-moment-of-return-2/)

[Ian Mcewan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/634/ian-mcewan-494_cost_the-cost-of-oblivious-daydreaming-was-al_340555.png)

> [It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/it-marked-the-beginning-and-of-course-an-end-at-that-moment-a-chapter/)

[Ian Mcewan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03b/ian-mcewan-494_beginning_it-marked-the-beginning-and-of-course-an_2366435.png)

> [It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/it-was-common-enough-to-see-so-much-death-and-want-a-child-common/)

[Ian Mcewan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d10/ian-mcewan-494_children_it-was-common-enough-to-see-so-much-deat_554562.png)

> [The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/the-cost-of-oblivius-daydreaming-was-always-this-moment-of-return-the/)

[Ian Mcewan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39e/ian-mcewan-494_atonement_the-cost-of-oblivius-daydreaming-was-alw_683755.png)

> [The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/the-evasions-of-her-little-novel-were-exactly-those-of-her-life/)

[Ian Mcewan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71e/ian-mcewan-494_books_the-evasions-of-her-little-novel-were-ex_1033569.png)

> [“For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/for-children-childhood-is-timeless-it-is-always-the-present/)

[Ian McEwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1f/ian-mcewan-494_age_for-children-childhood-is-timeless-it-is_295091.png)

> [None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/none-of-us-really-either-know-the-circumstances-of-our-death-or-are/)

[Ian Mcewan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05d/ian-mcewan-494_circumstances_none-of-us-really-either-know-the-circum_746759.png)

> [We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/we-knew-so-little-about-eachother-we-lay-mostly-submerged-like-ice/)

[Ian Mcewan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

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## Other authors on Littles

## More by Ian McEwan

> [“As you will see, we do not believe that artists have an obligation to strike up attitudes to the war. Indeed, they are wise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/as-you-will-see-we-do-not-believe-that-artists-have-an-obligation-to/)

[Ian McEwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

> [You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/you-could-say-that-all-novels-are-spy-novels-and-all-novelists-are/)

[Ian Mcewan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/i-ve-never-had-a-moment-s-doubt-i-love-you-i-believe-in-you/)

[Ian Mcewan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

> [“It is shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/it-is-shaming-sometimes-how-the-body-will-not-or-cannot-lie-about/)

[Ian McEwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

> [“While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were partly visual, partly just a feeling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/while-my-friends-struggled-and-calculated-i-reached-a-solution-by-a/)

[Ian McEwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

> [“Once, on a walk by a river- Eskdale in low reddish sunlight, with a dusting of snow- his daughter quoted to him an opening…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/once-on-a-walk-by-a-river-eskdale-in-low-reddish-sunlight-with-a/)

[Ian McEwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/perhaps-it-s-one-of-those-cases-of-a-microcosm-giving-you-the-whole/)

[Ian McEwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/who-you-get-and-how-it-works-out-there-s-so-much-luck-involved-as/)

[Ian Mcewan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

> [“On Chesil Beach he could have called out to Florence, he could have gone after her. He did not know, or would not have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/on-chesil-beach-he-could-have-called-out-to-florence-he-could-have/)

[Ian McEwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

> [It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/it-was-always-the-view-of-my-parents-that-hot-weather-encouraged/)

[Ian Mcewan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

> [I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/i-apologize-for-being-obvious-but-every-time-i-watch-the-curtain-come/)

[Ian Mcewan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

> [I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/i-would-rather-be-physically-disabled-obviously-than-mentally-i-would/)

[Ian Mcewan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

> [“Words, as I'm beginning to appreciate, can make things true.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/words-as-i-m-beginning-to-appreciate-can-make-things-true/)

[Ian McEwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

> [I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/i-couldn-t-think-about-novels-at-all-it-seemed-the-only-writing-that/)

[Ian Mcewan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

> [I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/i-did-not-kill-my-father-but-i-sometimes-felt-i-had-helped-him-on-his/)

[Ian Mcewan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/)

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