Atonement Ian Mcewan Quotes

#1. The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual.
It was difficult to come back.

Ian McEwan

#2. It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.

Ian McEwan

#3. Who knows if all our brains are inventing the same thing? I mean, how do we know that the thing YOUR eyes see and call "red" is the same thing that I call "red"?

Jaclyn Moriarty

#4. Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.

Rose Of Lima

#5. Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.

John Banville

#6. It's crazy in just the difference it makes turning up to sound check without a hangover.

Ladyhawke

#7. The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

Ogden Nash

#8. I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.

Rachel Zoe

#9. There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.

Rumi

#10. Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

Christopher Hampton

#11. He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.

Ian McEwan

#12. Was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?

Ian McEwan

#13. i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.

Ian McEwan