English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Ian Mcewan quotes about life

British Author, Writer June 21, 1948

Ian Mcewan quotes in russian
 Cite this Page: Citation

Quotes

The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her novella--and was necessary to it. Ian Mcewan
Ian Mcewan quote: "Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death..."
Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory? Ian Mcewan
He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive. Ian Mcewan
Unlike in Daisy's novels, moments of precise reckoning are rare in real life; questions of misinterpretations are not often resolved. Nor do they remain pressingly unresolved. They simply fade. People don't remember clearly, or they die, or the questions die and new ones take their place. Ian Mcewan
Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. Ian Mcewan
In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot. Ian Mcewan
It took a day to dismantle Lily's existence . . .striking the set of a play, humble, one-handed domestic drama, without permission from the cast. . . But her life, all lives, seemed tenuous when he saw how quickly, with what ease, all the trappings, all the fine details of a lifetime could be packed and scattered, or junked. . . Objects became junk as soon as they were separated from their owner and their pasts . . . As the shelves and drawers emptied, and the boxes and bags filled, he saw... Ian Mcewan
And now she was back in the world, not one she could make, but the one that had made her, and she felt herself shrinking under the early evening sky. She was weary of being outdoors, but she was not ready to go in. Was that really all there was in life, indoors or out? Wasn't there somewhere else for people to go? Ian Mcewan
Ian Mcewan quote: "The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal..."
The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal for perfection. Too long, sometimes too much like life. Ian Mcewan
Ian Mcewan quote: "since coming home, her life had stood still and a fine day..."
...since coming home, her life had stood still and a fine day like this made her impatient, almost desperate. Ian Mcewan
Ian Mcewan quote: "He had been walking these roads, he thought, all his life."
He had been walking these roads, he thought, all his life. Ian Mcewan
Ian Mcewan quote: "You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts..."
You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go. Ian Mcewan
She's not dead, Henry kept telling himself. But her life, all lives, seemed tenuous when he saw how quickly, with what ease, all the trappings, all the fine details of a lifetime could be packed and scattered, or junked. Ian Mcewan
She was weary of being outdoors, but she was not ready to go in. Was that really all there was in life, indoors or out? Wasn't there somewhere else for people to go? Ian Mcewan
I said I didn’t like tricks, I liked life as I knew it recreated on the page. He said it wasn’t possible to recreate life on the page without tricks. Ian Mcewan

Popular Author

Related Authors