Quotes from Ian Mcewan

At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach.

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.