3 December 2020 Ian Mcewan By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
3 December 2020 Ian Mcewan I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
3 December 2020 Ian Mcewan I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.
3 December 2020 Ian Mcewan 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.
3 December 2020 Ian Mcewan 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.
3 December 2020 Ian Mcewan 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.
3 December 2020 Ian Mcewan A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
