Life
1 likes
This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.
Welcome to our collection of popular quotes by
Ian McEwan
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.
* 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.
- 7 quotations
- 0 likes
Life
1 likes
And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.
Writing
1 likes
Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?
Knowledge
1 likes
No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.
Love
1 likes
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.
Life
1 likes
The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
Writing
1 likes
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.
7 quotations
Page 1 of 1
