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
writing stronger might
At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.
lying heart body
It is shaming sometimes how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum’s sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush?
men self ice
We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was a rare sight below the waves, of a man's privacy and turmoil, of his dignity upended by the overpowering necessity of pure fantasy, pure thought, by the irreducible human element - Mind.
mean feelings mind
A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it.
diversion consequence being-wrong
When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.
thinking feet world
And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.
thinking race littles
Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
narrative information flow
Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
lying thinking views
The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the subjective, the ordering of the world in line with your needs, an inability to contemplate your own unimportance. In Henry's view such reasoning belongs on a spectrum at whose far end, rearing like an abandoned temple, lies psychosis.
world notes should
The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.
writing imagination fancy
Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?
opportunity class betrayed
Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.
art civilization holocaust
In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be the end of not only civilization, but art, too.
depression firsts nails
You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.