Not being boring is quite a challenge.
—Ian McEwan
Topics: Writing
By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State’s crime when it sets out to crush that individuality.
—Ian McEwan
Topics: Fiction, Individuality
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 opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
—Ian McEwan
Topics: Literature, Books
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
—Ian McEwan
Topics: Authors & Writing, Writers, Writing
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
—Ian McEwan
Topics: Politics, Politicians
One has to have the courage of one’s pessimism.
—Ian McEwan
Topics: Pessimism
By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
—Ian McEwan
Topics: Communism, Socialism
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- J. R. R. Tolkien British Philologist, Writer
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- Stephen Fry English Actor, Writer
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