Ian Mcewan Quotes
There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust.
Quotes to Explore
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The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.
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The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.
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If I hadn't an absolute faith in the harmony of creation, I wouldn't have tried for thirty years to express it in a mathematical formula. It is only man's consciousness of what he does with his mind that elevates him above the animals, and enables him to become aware of himself and his relationship to the universe.
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I love telling stories, and I'm a born storyteller. That's what I do, and that's what I want to continue to do.
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My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.
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When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do.
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There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust.
