Ian Mcewan Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.

  Ian Mcewan

  Hurt, Sensual, Elation

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.90, Random House

• Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

  Ian Mcewan

  Reading, Self, Elements

  "Ian McEwan: By the Book". Interview, www.nytimes.com. December 6, 2012.

• Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

  Ian Mcewan

  Giving, Enduring Love, Pleasure

• This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

  Ian Mcewan

  Sweet, Children, Pain

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