Quotes About Ian McEwan

If only she could, like the mother of Jesus, arrive at that swollen state by magic.

Her attention remained divided between the page in her hand and, fifty feet away, the closed bedroom door.

This was insomniac memory, not a dream. Frowning with concern, she took his free hand in hers and began to lead him across the room.

Nothing is so dishonourable in a civilised nation as to permit itself to be 'governed' without resistance by a reckless clique that has surrendered to depraved instinct.

Such a fantasy of miscegenation could be a form of racism or simple adoration, but either way he was in no mood to banish it.

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'

In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be the end of not only civilization, but art, too.

I'll tell you who I absolutely adore: Ian McEwan.

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

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

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