Quotes by : Ian McEwan

Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world.

They were beyond the present, outside time, with no memories and no future. There was nothing but obliterating....

It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend....

Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy.

The light of artistic creation is also blinding.The artist can’t see the suffering he causesto those....

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

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a....

She knew enough to recognize that memories were crowding in, and there was nothing he could do. They....

In the seventies I used to work in the bedroom of my flat at a little table. I worked in longhand with....

For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of....