Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad. — Lionel Shriver Easier Copy Share Image
“A obstinação pura e simples é mais durável que a coragem, embora não seja tão” — Lionel Shriver Amor Copy Share Image
Ever since Hiroshima, we've been faced with the depressing fact that you cannot un-invent something. — Lionel Shriver Been Copy Share Image
I have never in all my life considered you other people. — Lionel Shriver Considered 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
As any traveller knows, heading elsewhere is one thing, getting back quite another. — Lionel Shriver Another Copy Share Image
“It's queer how the thing what attracted you to someone is the same as what you come to despise about them” — Lionel Shriver Despise Copy Share Image
“What is cool changes; that there is such a thing as cool is immutable.” — Lionel Shriver Change Copy Share Image
I guess I understand a public intellectual to be somebody who moves public discourse forward: someone who either says something new or… — Lionel Shriver Forward Copy Share Image
I seem to remember even from when I was very young that when you loved someone you also hated them for making… — Lionel Shriver Hated 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 Charles Copy Share Image
“So when I said I'd miss him, I meant I would miss what we had not experienced, and I don't know what… — Lionel Shriver Nostalgia Copy Share Image
February is for curmudgeons, whinge-bags, and misanthropes. You can't begrudge us one month of the year or blame us for being even… — Lionel Shriver Blame Copy Share Image
The fact that my clothing has been visually available to other people I do not find upsetting. The body is another matter.… — Lionel Shriver Available 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
“I had created my own Other Woman who happened to be a boy. I'd seen this in-house cuckolding in other families, and… — Lionel Shriver Created Woman Copy Share Image
I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating… — Lionel Shriver Alone Copy Share Image
“they could make profitable use of his ample winnings and see the world. Were he not on tour for most of the… — Lionel Shriver Simple pleasures Copy Share Image
Tory supporters are not spontaneously ashamed; they have been made to feel ashamed. British leftists fiercely believe they are right - in… — Lionel Shriver Believe Copy Share Image
“Once I was no longer fussing with my coat, he said, “You may be fooling the neighbors and the guards and Jesus… — Lionel Shriver Fooling Copy Share Image
“Now, over the years I've been forced to conclude that most celebrations don't work. The more carefully planned a signal occasion, the… — Lionel Shriver Birthday 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
“I have theorized that you can locate most people on a spectrum of the crudest sort and that it may be their… — Lionel Shriver People Spectrum Copy Share Image
“But after I’d survived for so long on the scraps from my own emotional table, you spoiled me with a daily banquet… — Lionel Shriver Spoiled Copy Share Image
I realize it's commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, 'I love you, but I don't always like you.' But… — Lionel Shriver Arms Copy Share Image
“What would I like to get away from? Complexity. Anxiety. A feeling I've had my whole life that at any given time… — Lionel Shriver Coming home Copy Share Image
“All these men afraid of bein’ crowded, ain’t they? They need all this room, they afraid some woman gonna crawl in their… — Lionel Shriver Afraid Copy Share Image
“I am a wordy writer, and often churn out pages on end without advancing the plot a jot. Hence I try to… — Lionel Shriver Children Copy Share Image
“My story is about all I got to my name right now, and that's why I feel robbed. But a story's a… — Lionel Shriver Right now Copy Share Image
Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it… — Lionel Shriver Bangs Copy Share Image
“Couples stray,” said Edgar. “Part of the breaking-in process.” “Not breaking in, breaking.” Nicola differed sharply. “You can glue people together again.… — Lionel Shriver Adults Copy Share Image
“I did feel a concentrated dislike for those boys, who couldn't submit to the odd faithless girlfriend, needling classmate, or dose of… — Lionel Shriver Dislike Copy Share Image
