Quotes by : Ian McEwan

He came to find her, wanting what everyone wanted, and what only free-thinking people, not the supernatural,....

...children are at heart selfish, and reasonably so, for they are programmed for survival.

You pull a book from the shelf and there was an invention... Almost like cooking, I thought sleepily.....

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

It was always the view of my parents," Emily said, "that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young....

Becoming drunk is a journey that generally elates him in the early stages—he's good company, expansive,....

When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course,....

So here I am, upside down in a woman.

All day we've witnessed each other's crimes. You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to die?....

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