Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people--that they feel pain, even that… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
At the keyboard, unrelenting anguish about hurting other people's feelings inhibits spontaneity and constipates creativity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I am hopeful that the concept of 'cultural appropriation' is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds rubbing up against each other… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Everything people do that doesn’t work has to be somebody else’s fault. Next time you know, geezers’ll be suing the government for… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The fact that my clothing has been visually available to other people I do not find upsetting. The body is another matter.… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Clearly, freedom does not extend to the right to harm other people. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I am bowled over by the massive number of remarkable people who face down the fact that no, they are not going… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
We are not attracted to people because they are virtuous. In fact, there's something a little creepy about people who are too… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In fact, it's become politically important to offend people, because we have to fight back against this notion that being offensive should… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some… — 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
