Ian Mcewan
Ian Mcewan
Ian Russell McEwan CBE FRSA FRSLis an English novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth21 June 1948
somewhere-else sky people
And now she was back in the world, not one she could make, but the one that had made her, and she felt herself shrinking under the early evening sky. She was weary of being outdoors, but she was not ready to go in. Was that really all there was in life, indoors or out? Wasn't there somewhere else for people to go?
borrowed knows
No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.
come-back-to-me
come back, come back to me
outcomes novelists atonement
How can a novelist achieve atonement when with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also god?
family-love forgotten
How easily this unthinking family love was forgotten.
lost
Nothing was to be lost by beginning at the beginning...
details cost littles
The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. It was difficult to come back.
pessimism
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
reviews
I often don't read reviews.
kindness thinking despair
I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, ...
rainy-day temperature lows
What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects?
oblivion reasonable
Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option.
terrible-events waiting mind
At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.
narrative information tension
Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information,