Ian Mcewan Quotes About Confusion

Quotes about: Confusion

• It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.

  Ian Mcewan

  Life, Real, Simple

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

• There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the idea that other minds were equally alive. It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding, above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal value. That was the only moral a story need have.

  Ian Mcewan

  Real, Struggle, Simple

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

• But how to do feelings? All very well to write "She felt sad", or describe what a sad person might do, but what of sadness itself, how was that put across so it could be felt in all its lowering immediacy? Even harder was the threat, or the confusion of feeling contradictory things.

  Ian Mcewan

  Sadness, Writing, Confusion

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