Ian Mcewan Quotes
I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.
McEwan, Ian. Essay. The Guardian, 2014.
The statement was in response to criticism about the literary quality of the emerging writers of New Masses. The magazine, a Marxist / Communist-oriented publication was supposed to provide a literary outlet for worker-writers whose views were so suppressed that they could never develop their writing skills. Despite Gold’s efforts and many attempts to find working class writers, most of the quality literature in New Masses came from liberal, middle-class writers, known before they ever published in New Masses. These included Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Katherine Ann Porter, Lewis Mumford, Clifton Fadiman and many others.
Ian Russell McEwan, CBE, FRSA, FRSL is an English novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 in its list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture".
