I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. — 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
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into… — 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
