Ian Mcewan Quotes

I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
Ian Mcewan

Live, Help, Someone

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
Ian Mcewan

True, Fabulous, Requires

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
Ian Mcewan

Experience, Knew, Writer

At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
Ian Mcewan

Live, Year, Risk

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.
Ian Mcewan

Funny, Find, Actually

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
Ian Mcewan

Religion, Darkness, Actually

I don't hold grudges.
Ian Mcewan

I don't really believe in evil at all.
Ian Mcewan

I often don't read reviews.
Ian Mcewan

Often, Read, Reviews

I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
Ian Mcewan

Friends, Child, Close

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.
Ian Mcewan

Rock, Successful, Mind

I'm quite good at not writing.
Ian Mcewan

Good, Writing, Quite

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
Ian Mcewan

Said, Read, Somebody

If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.
Ian Mcewan

Happy, Die, Perfect

In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
Ian Mcewan

Experience, Means, Writer

Not being boring is quite a challenge.
Ian Mcewan

Boring, Challenge, Quite

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
Ian Mcewan

Flow, Charge, Narrative

Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
Ian Mcewan

God, Moment, Sense

Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
Ian Mcewan

Great, Become, Race

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
Ian Mcewan

Courage, Pessimism

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.
Ian Mcewan

Greatest, Reading, Pleasure

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
Ian Mcewan

Politics, Enemy

Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
Ian Mcewan

Off, Makes, Reading

Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.
Ian Mcewan

Words, Days, Week

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.
Ian Mcewan

Culture, Quite, Missing

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: June 21, 1948

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