“We often told ourselves off for wasting time in chairs, fully dressed, talking, when we could be doing the same, lying down… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“But even I know that love doesn’t steer by logic, nor is power distributed evenly. Lovers arrive at their first kisses with… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“He was discovering that being in love was not a steady state, but a matter of fresh surges or waves, and he… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“But soon I loved her completely and wished to possess her, own her, absorb her, eat her. I wanted her in my… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they’ve ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“When love dies and a marriage lies in ruins, the first casualty is honest memory, decent, impartial recall of the past. Too… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“The conversation had turned again to those moments, by now enriched by a private mythology, when they first set eyes on each… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“I squeezed her hand and said nothing. I knew little about Keats or his poetry, but I thought it possible that in… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Who could ever reckon up the damage done to love and friendship and all hopes of happiness by a surfeit or depletion… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“But even I know that love doesn’t steer by logic, nor is power distributed evenly. Lovers arrive at their first kisses with… — 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
“Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man… — 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
