There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust.


Sweet Tooth: A Novel (ed. Anchor, 2012) - ISBN: 9780385536837

Ian McEwan Quotes

There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its...

There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its...

There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its...

There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its...