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
Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't. — Lionel Shriver Ifs Copy Share Image
“Speak of the devil. Luella had wandered in wearing what might once have been a stylish frock, but the hem was shredded… — Lionel Shriver Fifteen years Copy Share Image
“Still, I may have been glad to scratch the dry surface of our day-to-day peaceableness the way Violetta had clawed the sere… — Lionel Shriver Itch Copy Share Image
Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad. — Lionel Shriver Easier Copy Share Image
“Should what you get up to fail to comport with who you think you are, something is surely inaccurate (and likely optimistic)… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you… — Lionel Shriver Excellence 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 never, ever took you for granted. We met too late for that; I was nearly thirty-three by then, and my past… — Lionel Shriver Companionship Copy Share Image
However unattractive, pre-nups are at least a way round a law that dictates simply because you love someone and share their bed,… — Lionel Shriver Everything Copy Share Image
Set a good example as parents, since the most convincing argument that a girl can become a computer coder is that her… — Lionel Shriver Argument Copy Share Image
“He was already intuiting that attachment - if only to a squirt gun - made him vulnerable.” — Lionel Shriver Attachment Copy Share Image
Trump can't string a single grammatical sentence together, and at the podium, he is lumpen and awkward. — Lionel Shriver He Copy Share Image
“Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you'd think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never… — Lionel Shriver Desire Copy Share Image
“He didn't like to be seen needing it - as if hunger were a sign of weakness.” — Lionel Shriver Hunger Copy Share Image
“I was reminded of the time I got a free upgrade to first class, where I sat right next to Sean Connery.… — Lionel Shriver First class Copy Share Image
...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate. — Lionel Shriver Affliction Copy Share Image
For storytellers, financiers make ideal rogues. The easiest way to make characters unappealing is to make them rich - shorthand for spoiled,… — Lionel Shriver Ideal Copy Share Image
History is made of empires, and the United States was by far and away the greatest, richest, and fairest empire that had… — Lionel Shriver Earth Copy Share Image
“But I was beginning to intuit that full-blown maturity was not so very different from childhood. Both states in their extreme were… — Lionel Shriver Children Copy Share Image
“I felt expendable, throw-away, swallowed by a big biological project that I didn't initiate or choose, that produced me but would also… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Overly vigorous investigations of ominously ill-defined 'bullying' can themselves constitute a form of bullying. — Lionel Shriver Bullying Copy Share Image
