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
rainy-day temperature lows
What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects?
views weather people
It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.
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,
literary quite scientific
Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.
reads third worked
How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.
atheists bad deed easier forgive god people possibly problem reconcile religious themselves
Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
novels
You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.