Ian Mcewan
Ian Mcewan
Ian Russell McEwan CBE FRSA FRSLis an English novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth21 June 1948
men play littles
I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.
reading humanity deny
Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.
war self order
In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious logic of self-interest that saw us through the Cold War would collapse if the leaders of one nuclear state came to welcome, or ceased to fear mass death.
children way
Looking after children is one of the ways of looking after yourself.
womanly dies
Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?
hurt sensual elation
The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.
emotional intellectual novelists
Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach.
pessimism
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
reading self elements
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.
writing people fiction
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
father garden growth
I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared to what followed.
simple obvious-things perspective
From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.
next exit miles
He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
lost
Nothing was to be lost by beginning at the beginning...