Ian McEwan Quotes
born 1948 England
Ian Russell McEwan (born June 21, 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter.
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Nations are never virtuous, though they might sometimes think they are.
Solar (2010)
This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing.
On Chesil Beach (2007)
How can one understand the inner life of a character, real or fictional, without knowing the state of her finances?
Sweet Tooth (2012)
I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way.
The Cement Garden (1978)
You want a picture of futility? It's a tunnel in the desert, from nowhere to nowhere, four hundred and fifty feet long.
The Innocent (1990)
We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.
Amsterdam (1998)
When a court determines any question with respect to ... the upbringing of a child ... the child's welfare shall be the court's paramount consideration. ~ Section 1(1) Children Act 1989
The Children Act (2014)
Who you get, and how it works out - there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your unconscious choice of mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily.
Enduring Love (1997)
He had once felt light on the ground. He used to think his life was an open-ended adventure, he used to give things away, it amused him when the unexpected happened, benevolent coincidences used to bear him along. When had all that stopped?
The Child in Time (1987)