“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
“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
“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
“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
“Beyond a certain age, a journey across the city becomes uncomfortably reflective...One day I too will prompt a moment's reflection in 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
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
I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough -… — 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“He was thinking of that time, the way one does on long journeys when rootlessness and boredom, lack of sleep or routine… — 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
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 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share
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
“It is shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share
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
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
I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share
I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share
