Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.' — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In the era of Venus Williams, girliness and goo isn't the way to every woman's heart. Yet publishers presume that women only… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
A Trump presidency feels as if we've crawled between the covers of a really crummy book. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I might defend the reviewing trade, but a handful of haughty hired hands no longer having the last word on books is… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Hungry for both fantasy and inspiration, readers crave protagonists who, after overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, triumph at the end of the day. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Great American Novel” = ”doorstop of a book, usually pretentious, written by a man.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
By stereotyping my work's audience as self-involved and prissy, women-only packaging also insults my readers, who could all testify that trussing up… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The dumbest childhood vow I ever made was to finish every book I started. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
A manuscript under way always gave me something to do; only while enduring the aimlessness between books was I truly glum. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
When my novels are packaged as exclusively for women, I'm not only cut off from a vital portion of my audience but… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Few Amazon punters will explore a book with the depth of an 800-word review. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Jonathan Lethem's 10th novel, 'The Blot,' is engaging, entertaining, and sharp for its first two-thirds. Then it goes to hell. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Authors are free to ignore their editors' advice. I often avail myself of this veto power - sometimes out of a pigheadedness… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Okay, it's like this. You wake up, you watch TV, and you get in the car and you listen to the radio.… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Awful film adaptations follow novelists for the rest of their lives. An atrocious movie of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' could… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else.… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life,… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I’m a journalist, and journalists need news. Deprive them of it, and they go a bit barking. Deprive them of news long enough, and… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“One of the things I learned with Charles," said Gray carefully, "was that finding someone like you does not necessarily mean that either of… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“The idea is that you don't only have one destiny. Younger and younger, kids are pressed to decide what they want to do with… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.' — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I think that's the biggest favor you can grant anyone, don't you? Permission to be dull. I know Henry will sometimes say something so… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
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