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
thinking self essence
It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.
book thinking done
I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have no difficulty assimilating it into what you’ve done before.
cities groups campaigns
London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.
believe perfect rambling
I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction.
men passivity-is interesting
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
individuality novelists states
By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State
people justice asking
By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
art israel way
There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics...
oblivion reasonable
Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option.
views weather people
It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.
men logic found
What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?
matter looks moments
Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.
stress believe opportunity
In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can become a noun, an act a thing. To refuse, to insist on saying no to what you believe is wrong, becomes at a stroke refuse, an insurmountable pile of garbage.
world shapes given
I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.