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
thinking views political
All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing and occasional genocide are preferable to an invasion, they should be sombre in their view.
attitude want strikes
What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
narrative information tension
Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information,
simple answers lovers
But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.
giving enduring-love pleasure
Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.
imagination enemy
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
rainy-day temperature lows
What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects?
nuts humanity analysis
For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.
love moments particular
She loved him, though not at this particular moment.
past thinking temptation
Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.
sweet children pain
This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.
thinking self essence
It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.
book thinking done
I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have no difficulty assimilating it into what you’ve done before.
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.