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Ian McEwan Quotes: "come back, come back to me"

come back, come back to me



Ian McEwan Quotes: "I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life."

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.




Ian McEwan Quotes: "Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality."

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended."

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.




Ian McEwan Quotes: "True intelligence requires fabulous imagination."

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it."

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



Ian McEwan Quotes: "I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days)."

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).




Ian McEwan Quotes: "What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak."

What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness."

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible."

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "one could drown in irrelevance."

one could drown in irrelevance.



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

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 Quotes: "Finally, you had to measure yourself by other people - there really was nothing else. every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself."

Finally, you had to measure yourself by other people - there really was nothing else. every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead."

The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "What is lawful is not always identical to what is right."

What is lawful is not always identical to what is right.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken"

A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken



Ian McEwan Quotes: "Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead."

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps."

Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion."

When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "Let his name be cleared and everyone else adjust their thinking. He had put in time, now they must do the work. His business was simple. Find Cecilia and love her, marry her and live without shame."

Let his name be cleared and everyone else adjust their thinking. He had put in time, now they must do the work. His business was simple. Find Cecilia and love her, marry her and live without shame.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?"

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



Ian McEwan Quotes: "You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go."

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy."

Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "Not being boring is quite a challenge."

Not being boring is quite a challenge.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be the end of not only civilization, but art, too."

In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be the end of not only civilization, but art, too.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed."

Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view."

Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you."

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



Ian McEwan Quotes: "I don't hold grudges."

I don't hold grudges.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes."

Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light."

These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.



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

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



Ian McEwan Quotes: "It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you."

It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "The world should take note: not everything is getting worse."

The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive."

He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "One has to have the courage of one's pessimism."

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



Ian McEwan Quotes: "At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write."

At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her."

When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime."

How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame."

Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "It is shaming sometimes how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum’s sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush?"

It is shaming sometimes how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum’s sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush?



Ian McEwan Quotes: "Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence"

Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence



Ian McEwan Quotes: "He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit."

He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed."

That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth"

We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth



Ian McEwan Quotes: "How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?"

How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?



Ian McEwan Quotes: "Someone once asked me "If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you?" And I said "No, thanks, I think I'll stick at this.""

Someone once asked me "If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you?" And I said "No, thanks, I think I'll stick at this."



Ian McEwan Quotes: "When anything can happen, everything matters."

When anything can happen, everything matters.



Ian McEwan Quotes: "Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too."

Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.