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Ian Mcewan Quotes

British - Author | June 21, 1948 -

Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

God Moment Believe Moral Now Sense

I don't really believe in evil at all.

Evil Believe Really

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

Darkness Religion Believe Think

My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.

Father Great Me Problem Emotions He

I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

Child Friends Never Up Close Friends

My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.

Education Parents Me Never Guide

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

Experience Childhood Adolescence Knew

In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

Experience Writer Means Lot Letter

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

Feeling Returning Never Something

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

Time Intelligence Man Warm Feel

London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.

Politics Energy Problems You I Can

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

Information Flow Narrative Charge

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