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Famous Ian Mcewan Quotes
“He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.”
“I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction.”
“Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.”
“Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.”
“I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.”
“At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.”
“I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.”
“I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.”
“I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'”
“In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.”
“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
“That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.”
“Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?”
“Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.”