Ian Mcewan Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

  Ian Mcewan

  Writing, Imagination, Fancy

• True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

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  Imagination, Fabulous, True Intelligence

• Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

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  Imagination, Enemy, Politics

• How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. There is nothing outside her. In her imagination she has set the limits and the terms. No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists. It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. The attempt was all.

  Ian Mcewan

  Atheist, Imagination, Forgiving

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

  Ian Mcewan

  Imagination, Cruelty

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

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