“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 Books Copy Share Image
“No such thing as larger-than-life, Kellogg. There's only life-size, and any magnification is just other people's bullshit.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away. — Lionel Shriver Away Copy Share Image
“This sounds idiotic, but every time I encounter a picture of myself I am shocked to have been seen. I do not,… — Lionel Shriver Time Copy Share Image
“The feeling was not of being attractive precisely, but rather of not having to entertain. It was breathtaking: to be ensconced in… — Lionel Shriver Business Copy Share Image
“You know that euphemism, she’s expecting? It’s apt. The birth of a baby, so long as it’s healthy, is something to look… — Lionel Shriver Birth Copy Share Image
It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in. — Lionel Shriver Apathy Copy Share Image
I read 'The Bell Jar' as an adolescent and, like most teenagers, had no problem identifying with a young woman who had… — Lionel Shriver Ahead Copy Share Image
“Accordingly, the one respect in which I depart from my younger self is that I now regard those people who have little… — Lionel Shriver Respect Copy Share Image
“Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came… — Lionel Shriver Existence Copy Share Image
“We shared a sympathetic look, mutually marveling that kids who commit grown-up crimes still have their little-boy sweet tooth.” — Lionel Shriver Sweet tooth Copy Share Image
“I so mixed and matched the planet that you sometimes worried I had no commitments to anything or anywhere, though you were… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Whoa, that's the kind of little sister I can dig!" said Edison. "Yes, we're all alike," I said. "We cover for you,… — Lionel Shriver Adoration 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 Admiring Copy Share Image
“Exasperatingly, we're all pretty much restricted to learning what people are like with the permanent confound of our own presence, which is… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“No, this mother purled about her duties like a bubbling brook, and any number of stones hurled at her eddies sank with… — Lionel Shriver Parenting Copy Share Image
Ironically, heavier comedians, actors, and the characters they play are actually more sympathetic, and easier for audiences to identify with, than the… — Lionel Shriver Actually Copy Share Image
“I am a bundle of other people's histories, a creature of circumstance.” — Lionel Shriver History Copy Share Image
“Only the untouched, the well-fed and contented, could possibly covet suffering like a designer jacket.” — Lionel Shriver Fashion Copy Share Image
“Had I catalogued the downsides of parenthood, "son might turn out to be a killer" would never have turned up on the… — Lionel Shriver Children Copy Share Image
The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport. — Lionel Shriver Airports Copy Share Image
Laws to protect 'public health' are potentially infinite, especially once they no longer have to be supported by any research whatsoever. — Lionel Shriver Health Copy Share Image
“I don't understand why doctors don't advise everybody to lay on twenty extra pounds while they've got the chance. I might not… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“But you said that if the U.S. were to fall or founder during your lifetime, collapse economically, be overrun by an aggressor,… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
