“These were the months that shaped us.behind all our frustrations over all these years has been the wish to get back to… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
She sleepwalked from moment to moment, and whole months slipped by without memory, without bearing the faintest imprint of her conscious will. — 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.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“She knew enough to recognize that memories were crowding in, and there was nothing he could do. They wouldn’t let him speak.… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Now he reduced his progress to the rhythm of his boots -- he walked across the land until he came to the… — 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
