Ian Mcewan Quotes
Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.
Quotes to Explore
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
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When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.
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For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.
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Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.
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I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.
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My father got a phone call to bring me in to meet with Spielberg for 'E.T.,' partially because they knew I was a physical kid, and I was known in the business somewhat as a stunt kid, and I could do all the bicycle riding.
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Is power that-an emptiness?
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L. Frank Baum 'Philadelphia North American', (3 October 1904), as quoted by 'Map of Kansas Literature' Washburn.edu.
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Oh, Bertie, if I ever called you a brainless poop who ought to be given a scholarship at some lunatic asylum, I take back the words.
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One does not arrest Voltaire.
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Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.
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I can now see that our needs meshed perfectly: my need to be swept away by a man, to be held securely and adored by a man, and his need to find the girl who would be pliable and receptive to his idea of a couple, who wouldn't question his unspoken authority. I don't mean he wanted a mouse—and he knew very well he wasn't getting one.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.
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Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.
