Quotes by Mcewan, Ian

You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and acc >>

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

Politics is the enemy of the imagination. >>

Quotations about Fiction

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves >>

Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral >>

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across th >>

By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State's crime when it sets out to crush that individuality.

Mcewan, Ian