“He's feeling a pull, like gravity, of the approaching TV news. It's a condition of the times, this compulsion to hear how… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Unlike in Daisy's novels, moments of precise reckoning are rare in real life; questions of misinterpretations are not often resolved. Nor do… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be… — 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
“He saw it for the first time: on the day he died he would be wearing unmatching socks, there would be unanswered… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“At times this biography made him comfortably nostalgic for a verdant, horse-drawn, affectionate England; at others he was faintly depressed by the… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Sex is a different medium, refracting time and sense, a biological hyperspace as remote from conscious existence as dreams, or as water… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“In difficult moments it’s sometimes a good idea to ask yourself what it is you most want to be doing and consider… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Now time, afternoon time, which in the Midi is as elemental as air and light, expanded and rolled billowingly outwards across the… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was… — 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
“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
