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
self joy erotic
Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.
feelings fades lighters
What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
reviews
I often don't read reviews.
grudge
I don't hold grudges.
reading humanity deny
Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.
next exit miles
He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
war self order
In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious logic of self-interest that saw us through the Cold War would collapse if the leaders of one nuclear state came to welcome, or ceased to fear mass death.
want helping stranger
I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
would-be social secrecy
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
religious regret errors
One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
years childhood twenties
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
children way
Looking after children is one of the ways of looking after yourself.
virginia years risk
At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
determined novel turns
I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.