Ian Mcewan Quotes

"You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan."
- Ian Mcewan
(Related: God, End, Intention, Man, Relax, Satan, State)

"Politics is the enemy of the imagination."
- Ian Mcewan
(Related: Imagination, Politics, Enemy)

"It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important."
- Ian Mcewan
(Related: Successful, Duty, First, Opposition)

"One has to have the courage of one's pessimism."
- Ian Mcewan
(Related: Courage, Pessimism)