All Ian Mcewan Quotes
- Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence Bury
- Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience. Arguing
- Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too. Little
- It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people. Among
- Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option. Funny
- You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. All
- I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that… Architectural
- When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became… Became
- How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the… Better
- We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences. Arts
- You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other. Each