Celebrated Quote by Ian McEwan

In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon…

— Ian Mcewan

“Has it ever happened to you," Léon went on, "to come across some vague idea of one's own in a book, some dim image…

— Gustave Flaubert

“He didn’t stick around in the vicinity doing mysterious shit, sending messages to the heroine by a third party. He hauled his ass into…

— Charlaine Harris

“I envied his inspiration, his optimism in focusing back on the painful but glorious days. They were caring days, when we knew what we…

— Bao Ninh

“The stories didn't seem to care who he was or what he could do; it didn't matter. In their world, he wasn't alone. In…

— Estevan Vega

“All the things that seemed so exotic and exciting – cars, television, the fashions, the music, the buildings – were just surface. Under it…

— Dave Hutchinson

“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather…

— Barbara Pym

“Philip realised that they had done with life, these two quiet little people: they belonged to a past generation, and they were waiting there…

— William Somerset Maugham

“That was the thing about Simon and all the others, so pleasant on the surface, always knowing what to say, but underneath there was…

— Philipp Meyer

“That got him thinking about his life. It seemed a bitter, pointless sort of life now. No one was any better off because of…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Everyone had an ulterior motive in his worldview. Everyone was self-serving and therefore a potential instrument of pain. The world was a lonely, awful,…

— Jeremy Dyson

“There was an undeniable charm about the man, not merely the youthful airs of one who hadn’t seen the worst the world has to…

— V.E. Schwab