Actually Quote by Ian Mcewan Download Open image “I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.” — Ian Mcewan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Actually Books Determined Find Funny Novel Turn Turns
The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
After my first novel, my mother said to me, 'Why don't you make your writing more funny? You're so funny in person.' Because my… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes. — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
One thing that's really delightful is my books tend to attract people who are funny, so I get the benefit of people writing me… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Why is it okay to write a work of literary fiction where horrible, explicit things happen, where you can't write a book of humor… — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
I've always liked reading books that contain funny lines or situations, and maybe because my work is known chiefly for its violence and misery,… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
I love the idea of things being strict and things being uniform. That's the reason why I surround each collection with humor or irony.… — Thom Browne Copy Share Image
I'm being provided with some emotional ballast by giving me an intimate portrait of one character in particular in contrast to the collective. I'm… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's… — Jonathan Tropper 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
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of… — David Lange Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn't always want to… — Josie Loren Copy Share Image
The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better. — Kevin Brownlow Copy Share Image
