Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Ian McEwan ((b.1948) British Novelist, Short-story Writer)

Ian Russell McEwan (b.1948) is an English novelist and short story- and screenplay-writer celebrated for his psychological ambiguities in relationships. His penchant for dark material earned him the moniker “Ian Macabre” in the British press. Many of his novels and short stories have been made into films.

Born the military town of Aldershot, Hampshire, McEwan was educated at Sussex and East Anglia, where he studied under novelist Malcolm Bradbury. McEwan’s first collections of stories, First Love, Last Rites (1975; Somerset Maugham Award; film, 1997) and In Between the Sheets (1978,) attracted notoriety for his obsession with the erotic and the macabre—these features still distinguish his writing.

McEwan explored the nature of romantic love in the novels The Comfort of Strangers (1981; film 1990) and The Innocent (1990; film 1997,) and the screenplay The Ploughman’s Lunch (1985.) Novels such as The Child in Time (1987; Whitbread Novel Award; film 2017) and Black Dogs (1992) explore man’s understanding of history and contemporary society.

McEwan’s publications include The Daydreamer (1994,) The Short Stories (1995,) Enduring Love (1997; film 2004,) Amsterdam (1998; Booker Prize,) Atonement (2001; Oscar-winning film 2007,) Saturday (2005, James Tait Black Memorial Prize,) On Chesil Beach (2007; film 2017,) Solar (2010,) and Sweet Tooth (2012; film expected 2020.)

More: Wikipedia READ: Works by Ian McEwan

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

Wondering Whom to Read Next?

Comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *