Ian Mcewan Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. June 21, 1948
Birthday: June 21
In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can become a noun, an act a thing. To refuse, to insist on saying no to what you believe is wrong, becomes at a stroke refuse, an insurmountable pile of garbage.
source: Ian McEwan (1999). “Amsterdam”
topic: Stress, Believe, Opportunity, Misreading, Insurmountable
