My needs were simple I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
No one knew about the squirrel’s skull beneath Briony bed, but no one wanted to know. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone. — 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
No one knew about the squirrel’s skull beneath her bed, but no one wanted to know. — 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
I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
...the world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted… — 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
