Art Quote by Ian McEwan

“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

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

— Ian Mcewan

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

“It is shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions.”

— Ian McEwan

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.

— Ian Mcewan

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

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