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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I don't think people come to television for spectacle. And I don't really have a lot of fun writing spectacle for television, I'll do that in features.
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
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In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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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.
