Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a… — 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… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“Lucy had told me more than once that the past was a burden, that it was time to tear everything down.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“We often tell ourselves off for wasting time in chairs, fully dressed, when we could be doing the same lying down in… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love,… — 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
“So, one-third of the time it's a bad idea to move, which means that two-thirds of the time it's a good idea.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“It's at moments like these in a game that the essentials of his character are exposed: narrow, ineffectual, stupid—and morally so. The… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to… — 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… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
It was thought, perception, sensations that interested her, the conscious mind as a river through time, and how to represent its onward… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a… — 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
Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“Being late was a special kind of modern suffering, with blended elements of rising tension, self-blame, self-pity, misanthropy, and a yearning for… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“It was not always the case that a large minority comprising the weakest members of society wore special clothes, were freed from… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“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
“That evening he plays with the children, cleans the hamster's cage with them, gets them into their pyjamas, and reads to them… — 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
Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“At moments like this, his misanthropy sensitized him to the people packed tight around him, no longer fellow travelers but adversaries, competitors… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“They were beyond the present, outside time, with no memories and no future. There was nothing but obliterating sensation, thrilling and swelling,… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“A microscopic egg had failed to divide in time due to a failure somewhere along a chain of chemical events, a tiny… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“My ideal state as a reader when I’m reading other people is feeling I’m vaguely wasting my time when I’m not reading… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“Everyone believed that to be caught out in a shameful moment when neck muscles relax and the head snaps forward might damage… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
And she did not miss his presence so much as his voice on the phone. Even being lied to constantly, though hardly… — 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
She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I… — 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
