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Not being boring is quite a challenge.
— Ian McEwan
Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.
— Ian McEwan
In our decline we live in the shadow of giants.
— Ian McEwan
The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal for perfection. Too long, sometimes too much like life.
— Ian McEwan
Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option.
— Ian McEwan
There is a compassion in rational thought that is sometimes missing in religious conviction.
— Ian McEwan
Not blemishes. Adornments.
— Ian McEwan
Children are at heart selfish, and reasonably so, for they are programmed for survival.
— Ian McEwan
Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy.
— Ian McEwan
I often don't read reviews.
— Ian McEwan
Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?
— Ian McEwan
You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.
— Ian McEwan
The work we have to do is with ourselves ,If we're ever going to be at peace with each other.
— Ian McEwan
By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State
— Ian McEwan
Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world.
— Ian McEwan
But belligerence was a poor aid to concentration, as were three gins and a bottle of wine
— Ian McEwan
She lay in the dark and knew everything.
— Ian McEwan
She felt like a hospital patient who longs for her kindly visitor to leave so she can resume being ill.
— Ian McEwan
It's hilarious to recognize how completely another person resembles your imperfect self.
— Ian McEwan
Everything that impeded him had to be outweighed, even if only by a fraction, by all that drove him on.
— Ian McEwan
They both knew the vitality of the unsaid, whose invisible spirits danced around them now.
— Ian McEwan
i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.
— Ian McEwan
Other women cloy/The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry/Where most she satisfies.
— Ian McEwan
She loved him, though not at this particular moment.
— Ian McEwan
I don't hold grudges.
— Ian McEwan
Her attention remained divided between the page in her hand and, fifty feet away, the closed bedroom door.
— Ian McEwan
A baton of light across the bracken redeemed the reputation of the color brown with fiery reds and yellows.
— Ian McEwan
All day we've witnessed each other's crimes. You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to die?
— Ian McEwan
A taste for the miniature was one aspect of an orderly spirit. Another was a passion for secrets...
— Ian McEwan
Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.
— Ian McEwan
I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
— Ian McEwan
Beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.
— Ian McEwan
It was always the view of my parents ... that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.
— Ian McEwan
Consent has rough edges.
— Ian McEwan
At some level you remain an orphan for life; looking after children is one way of looking after yourself.
— Ian McEwan
So, one-third of the time it's a bad idea to move, which means that two-thirds of the time it's a good idea.
— Ian McEwan
Everyone nodded, nobody agreed.
— Ian McEwan
Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
— Ian McEwan
Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.
— Ian McEwan
When anything can happen, everything matters.
— Ian McEwan
Not men who ran the world, but who made it run.
— Ian McEwan
