“Yet in my experience, when left to their own devices people will get up to one of two things: nothing much, and… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“And of course Brian was far more upset about separation from those two blond moppets than about leaving Louise. There shouldn't be… — Lionel Shriver Management Copy Share Image
I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.… — Lionel Shriver Apathy 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 Audience Copy Share Image
Clearly, freedom does not extend to the right to harm other people. — Lionel Shriver Freedom Copy Share Image
“After all, she had announced at our introduction in September that she "simply loves children," Miss Fabricant, with a blunt snub of… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Few Amazon punters will explore a book with the depth of an 800-word review. — Lionel Shriver Book 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 Books Copy Share Image
“Later you referenced that anecdote to illustrate that my expectations were always preposterously outsized; that my very ravenousness for the exotic was… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
For the left-leaning, political identity is liable to be closely intertwined with personal identity. The left is collusive, if not presumptuous: should… — Lionel Shriver Identity Copy Share Image
In Shaker Heights, Ohio, one of America's first planned communities, order and harmony are prized. — Lionel Shriver America Copy Share Image
Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities. — Lionel Shriver Books Copy Share Image
“High rents had priced out the very service sector whose presence at ready hand once helped to justify urban living. For all… — Lionel Shriver Life 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 Childhood Copy Share Image
“He's one of those attorneys who think of the law as a game, not a morality play. I'm told that'd the kind… — Lionel Shriver Character Copy Share Image
As any traveller knows, heading elsewhere is one thing, getting back quite another. — Lionel Shriver Another Copy Share Image
Though a fine writer, Scott Spencer will forever be associated with a cheesy, sentimental film starring the vapid box-office draw Brooke Shields. — Lionel Shriver Film Copy Share Image
“For years I’d been awaiting that overriding urge I’d always heard about, the narcotic pining that draws childless women ineluctably to strangers’… — Lionel Shriver Bad news Copy Share Image
I was terrified of growing up to become the anti-me, maturing into a woman whom I would not recognise and who wouldn't… — Lionel Shriver Growing up Copy Share Image
“The irony is, though your parents always deplored his absence of Protestant industry, those two have more in common with Kevin than… — Lionel Shriver Every second Copy Share Image
“Kevin folded his arms and looked satisfied; I had gone back to playing Mother. “I knew exactly what I was doing.” He… — Lionel Shriver Parenting Copy Share Image
I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray. — Lionel Shriver Dog 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 Art Copy Share Image
