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
cities groups campaigns
London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.
matter anything-can-happen happens
When anything can happen, everything matters.
desert saws ends
He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.
emergencies process democratic
No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process.
simple obvious-things perspective
From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.
individuality novelists states
By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State
hands band variation
...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.
skulls squirrels bed
No one knew about the squirrel’s skull beneath her bed, but no one wanted to know.
matter conscious
Could it ever be explained, how matter becomes conscious?
girl song thinking
When we go on about the big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible, with nothing getting better, nothing to look forward to. But when I think small, closer in-you know, a girl I've just met, or this song we'regoing to do with Chas, or snowboarding next month, then it looks great. So this is going to be my motto - think small.
girl self his-love
When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course, he saw that her self-effacing proposal was quite irrelevant. All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. Love and patience- if only he had had them both at once- would surely have seen them both through.
luxury psychosis safety
The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.
womanly dies
Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?
powerful character fate
It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.