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Famous Ian Mcewan Quotes
“Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense.”
“What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?”
“Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence”
“Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.”
“Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.”
“What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects?”
“Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.”
“But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.”
“Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.”
“Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.”
“Be wary of too much calm, particularly in your mid-fifties.”
“She loved him, though not at this particular moment.”
“There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.”
“The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.”
“By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State”