Ian Mcewan

My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They…

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike…

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive…

I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and…

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their…

I don’t believe there’s any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I…

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially…

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of…

One has to have the courage of one’s pessimism…

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

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination…

London in the ’70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had…

Politics is the enemy of the imagination…

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on…