527 Quotes by Ian McEwan

There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything to others, but lose nothing of yourself.

Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.

Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. Cee

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have no difficulty assimilating it into what you’ve done before.

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