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Ian McEwan was born in Aldershot, Hampshire, England on June 21, 1948.
* He studied English at the University of Sussex and the University of East Anglia.
* He is the author of 14 novels, 5 short story collections, and 2 screenplays.
* His work has been translated into over 30 languages.
* He has won numerous awards, including the Booker Prize, the Whitbread Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
* He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts.
* He is a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
* He is a controversial figure, known for his dark humor and disturbing subject matter.
* He is one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.

A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it.

Ian McEwan

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

Ian McEwan

When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

Ian McEwan

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

Ian McEwan

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

Ian McEwan

And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.

Ian McEwan

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.

Ian McEwan

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