The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver Discovery 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… — 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… — 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… — Lionel Shriver Boys 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… — Lionel Shriver Advantages and disadvantages Copy Share Image
Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare. — Lionel Shriver Book Copy Share Image
“And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.” — Lionel Shriver Freedom 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 Book Copy Share Image
We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans. — Lionel Shriver Destroying 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 Bad 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… — Lionel Shriver Love Copy Share Image
“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303” — Lionel Shriver Acceptance Copy Share Image
“What is cool changes; that there is such a thing as cool is immutable.” — Lionel Shriver Change Copy Share Image
“I have theorized that you can locate most people on a spectrum of the crudest sort and that it may be their… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes asked if I get bored with talking about 'Kevin,' and of course, the short answer is yes. Nevertheless, after a… — Lionel Shriver Long 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 Abandoned Copy Share Image
Holocausts do not amaze me. Rapes and child slavery do not amaze me. And Franklin, I know you feel otherwise, but Kevin… — Lionel Shriver Amazed 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 Books Copy Share Image
A Trump presidency feels as if we've crawled between the covers of a really crummy book. — Lionel Shriver Between Copy Share Image
Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year. — Lionel Shriver Age 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 Bad Copy Share Image
“If Edgar sounded overeager, even rushed, the race was with his own temperament. He placed a premium on savvy. Yet since you… — Lionel Shriver Naivete Copy Share Image
