A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
As a child, I was always a sucker for anything in miniature, and it didn't have to be a dress: a desk,… — 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… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
While one can't always begrudge the wealth of people who have at least produced something of value, the rich of the financial… — 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
In the perfect world, no one would need pre-nups. But all too often, a misty-eyed romancer at the altar transforms into a… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some… — 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
Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's… — 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
