Ian Mcewan Stories Quotations

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'

He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.

A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.