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
too-much calm existential
Be wary of too much calm, particularly in your mid-fifties.
beach dirty writing
It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
self joy erotic
Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.
thinking views political
All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing and occasional genocide are preferable to an invasion, they should be sombre in their view.
attitude want strikes
What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
narrative information tension
Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information,
simple answers lovers
But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.
giving enduring-love pleasure
Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.
imagination enemy
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
rainy-day temperature lows
What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects?
nuts humanity analysis
For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.
love moments particular
She loved him, though not at this particular moment.
past thinking temptation
Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.
sweet children pain
This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.