“Only the untouched, the well-fed and contented, could possibly covet suffering like a designer jacket.” — Lionel Shriver Fashion Copy Share Image
Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases. — Lionel Shriver Plausible Copy Share Image
“[T]he cardboard bookcase of her character had already collapsed under the strain.” — Lionel Shriver Collapsed 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
We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans. — Lionel Shriver Climate Copy Share Image
Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life. — Lionel Shriver Attachment Copy Share Image
However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry. — Lionel Shriver Deficiency Copy Share Image
Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them . — Lionel Shriver Secret Copy Share Image
“I wonder if I wouldn't have been more moved if my own mother had taken me in her arms and said, 'I… — Lionel Shriver Business Copy Share Image
Some of the best scenes in drama take almost no time - helping to illustrate that life-changing events in real life often… — Lionel Shriver Best Copy Share Image
I owe thanks to a thoughtful, sophisticated readership hungry for challenging subject matter, for honest portrayals of parenthood, and for fiction whose… — Lionel Shriver Gratitude 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 Obesity Copy Share Image
[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from… — Lionel Shriver Apartment Copy Share Image
“[f]or most people, construction is tight, concentrated, bunchy, whereas vandalism offers release; you have to be quite an artist to give positive… — Lionel Shriver Art 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
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
“With no interruptions to admire dolly outfits, no tomorrow is a school day, we gorged on fruit and sorbet and splashed immoderate… — Lionel Shriver Childless 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
“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
The premiere of Lynne Ramsay's film of 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' at the Cannes film festival provides an apt juncture… — Lionel Shriver Cannes film festival Copy Share Image
“A petty one, but most resentments are. And one that for its smallness I felt obliged to repress. For that matter, that… — Lionel Shriver Anger Copy Share Image
One of my problems with terrorism is that it's self-evidently bad. The main thing that makes it complicated is the fact that… — Lionel Shriver Accomplish Copy Share Image
“I was disquieted to realize that he had ceased to call me anything at all. That seemed impossible, but your children generally… — Lionel Shriver Children Copy Share Image
“She had some appreciation for folks with a greed for sensation. Who were determined to "squeeze the orange" and press fresh experience… — Lionel Shriver Every day 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
“It must be this overarching commitment to what is really an abstraction, to one's children right or wrong, that can be even… — Lionel Shriver Abstraction Copy Share Image
“I came to regard my body in a new light. For the first time I apprehended the little mounds on my chest… — Lionel Shriver Bodies Copy Share Image
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain… Unlike the slight… — Lionel Shriver Average Copy Share Image
“Franklin, I was absolutely terrified of having a child. Before I got pregnant, my visions of child rearing--reading stories about cabooses with… — Lionel Shriver Children 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 irony is, though your parents always deplored his absence of Protestant industry, those two have more in common with Kevin than… — Lionel Shriver Catholic Copy Share Image
Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you… — Lionel Shriver Assessment Copy Share Image
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