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
I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Someone once asked me "If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you?" And I… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, ... — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
My biggest fear, I think falling from a great height. If I want to keep myself awake at night I imagine I'm… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
When people have supernatural beliefs I think they should be respected but there is no reason why they need to impose them… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I'm not against religion in the sense that I feel I can't tolerate it, but I think written into the rubric of… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient. — 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
Let his name be cleared and everyone else adjust their thinking. He had put in time, now they must do the work.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
When we go on about the big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible, with nothing… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I think the Americans are dying to leave Iraq. I was against the war but longed for the fall of Saddam; the… — 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
