“Why would affluence make him mad?" "Maybe he's mad that this is as good as it gets. Your big house. His good… — Lionel Shriver Dead end Copy Share Image
“Just because there are lots of them doesn't mean that the hot apple pies aren't excellent or that it isn't a privilege… — Lionel Shriver Apple pie Copy Share Image
“In truth we are bigger, greedier versions of the same eating, shitting, rutting ruck, hell-bent on disguising from somebody, if only from… — Lionel Shriver Truth Copy Share Image
Donald Trump wouldn't work on paper. Obnoxious, crass, boastful, and vulgar, with garish tastes and a Stepford wife - as a fictional… — Lionel Shriver Character Copy Share Image
By stereotyping my work's audience as self-involved and prissy, women-only packaging also insults my readers, who could all testify that trussing up… — Lionel Shriver Audience Copy Share Image
“Just because there are lots of them doesn't mean that it isn't a privilege to live in a time when you can… — Lionel Shriver Apple pie Copy Share Image
“I'm unsure why one trifling incident this afternoon has moved me to write to you. But since we've been separated, I may… — Lionel Shriver Coming home Copy Share Image
The dumbest childhood vow I ever made was to finish every book I started. — Lionel Shriver Book Copy Share Image
Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion. — Lionel Shriver Discover Copy Share Image
...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed. — Lionel Shriver Doomed Copy Share Image
As a woman, I'd be uneasy about being given the power to determine what is insulting to women in general. — Lionel Shriver Being Copy Share Image
“That was one of your favorite themes: that profusion, replication, popularity wasn't necessarily devaluing, and that time itself made all things rare.… — Lionel Shriver Present tense Copy Share Image
There was a point in the latter 1990s at which, suddenly, every sitcom and drama in sight had to have a gay… — Lionel Shriver Character Copy Share Image
“I've never been shy. I've just waited until I had something to say.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment. — Lionel Shriver Adaptation Copy Share Image
A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with… — Lionel Shriver Abandoned Copy Share Image
“Like most people who did not answer a particular calling from an early age, you placed work beside yourself; any occupation would… — Lionel Shriver Career Copy Share Image
I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us. — Lionel Shriver Person Copy Share Image
“The word love was required to cover such a range of emotions that it almost meant nothing at all. Since the love… — Lionel Shriver Love Copy Share Image
“If I was ever glad to have gone, I was never glad to go.” — Lionel Shriver Homesickness 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 Audience Copy Share Image
When we conceive of happiness as a static state, effectively a place toward which we are aimed but at which most of… — Lionel Shriver Dreams Copy Share Image
