All Ian Mcewan Quotes
- I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force. All
- I don't hold grudges. Funny
- I don't really believe in evil at all. All
- I often don't read reviews. Funny
- Finally, you had to measure yourself by other people - there really was nothing else. every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something… Else Every
- A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended. All
- There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the idea that other… Alive
- She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back… Alone
- A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her… Able
- That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed. Build
- Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion… Alive
- Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination? Achievable
- Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone. Alone
- It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented… Feel
- He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat. Affront
- All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. Ahead
- However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look… Been
- This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing. Changed
- Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive… Aeroplanes
- It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple… All
- Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes. Full
- How easily this unthinking family love was forgotten. Easily
- How can a novelist achieve atonement when with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also god? Absolute
- She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to… Beauty
- In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now… Able