More quotes by Ian McEwan, Atonement

"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse."
"Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?"
"And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you."
"A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it."
"At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write."