Ian McEwan Quotes
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“Either Ive always spoken to her from the heart in times like this, or I never have and I dont know what it means.”
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Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?
— Ian McEwan
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 more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
— Ian McEwan
The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
— Ian McEwan
— Ian McEwan
“I'm quite good at not writing.”
— Ian McEwan
— Ian McEwan
Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.
— Ian McEwan
Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.
— Ian McEwan
Was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?
— Ian McEwan
“How quickly the dead faded into each other,”
— Ian McEwan
No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process.
— Ian McEwan
“Her conviction that love that did not find its expression in a letter was not perfect.”
— Ian McEwan
“It's hilarious to recognize how completely another person resembles your imperfect self.”
— Ian McEwan
At some level you remain an orphan for life; looking after children is one way of looking after yourself.
— Ian McEwan
The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal for perfection. Too long, sometimes too much like life.
— Ian McEwan
— Ian McEwan
How can one understand the inner life of a character, real or fictional, without knowing the state of her finances?
— Ian McEwan
Memory's got nothing to do with years. You remember what you remember.
— Ian McEwan
Perhaps she would become one of those women, pitied or envied, who chose not to have children.
— Ian McEwan
And he saw the studio he was about to abandon for his bed as it might have appeared in a documentary film about himself that would reveal to a curious world how a masterpiece was born.
— Ian McEwan
They would also need to talk sense to her. The almost-existing children, the husky-voiced daughter, a museum curator perhaps, and the gifted, less settled son, good at too many things, who failed to complete his university course, but a far better pianist than she. Both always affectionate, brilliant at Christmases and summer-holiday castles and entertaining their youngest relations.
— Ian McEwan
— Ian McEwan
“By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State”
— Ian McEwan
“Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?”
— Ian McEwan
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