Child In Time Ian Mcewan Quotes

#1. My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#2. Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.

Norman Mailer

#3. 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.

Ian McEwan

#4. She wore her pain like lingerie, only who loved her enough, got to see it.

Himanshu Chhabra

#5. Art. If you don't understand the roots of his suffering,

Thich Nhat Hanh

#6. The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong.

Samuel Johnson

#7. You were never poor as long as you had something to love.

L.M. Montgomery

#8. Do I feel pressure being a young player with high expectations? Nah.

Landon Donovan

#9. The homely and erotic patters of marriage are not easily discarded.

Ian McEwan

#10. Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

Fran Lebowitz