Authors:

Ian Mcewan Quotes - Page 3

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

1983 Refrain from Or Shall We Die, an oratorio.

Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.

"The Background Hum" by Daniel Zalewski, www.newyorker.com. February 23,2009.

Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.

Christopher Hampton, Ian McEwan (2008). “Atonement: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

Nothing was to be lost by beginning at the beginning.

"Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

I've always thought cruelty is a failure of imagination.

Interview with Zadie Smith, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.

Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.131, Random House