I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to say that far worse things have happened and the literature of the Holocaust is a witness to the capacity… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal for perfection. Too long, sometimes too much like life.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy,… — 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
