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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 52 quotes by Ian Mcewan Ian Russell McEwan, CBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 21 June 1948) is an English novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". McEwan began his career writing sparse, Gothic short stories. The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981) were his first two novels, and earned him the nickname "Ian Macabre". These were followed by three novels of some success in the 1980s... Read full biography of Ian Mcewan → 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → True intelligence requires fabulous imagination. 0 Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they... → 0 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... → 0 It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like... → 0 Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god. 0 The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy. 0 I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar. 0 One has to have the courage of one's pessimism. 0 It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the... → 0 It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate... → 0 What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage... → 0 Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. 0 I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress. 0 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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