Issues Quote by Lionel Shriver Download Open image “Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes.” — Lionel Shriver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Issues Step Toes Who Writers Writing
All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that.” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance. — John Hall Wheelock Copy Share Image
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The way a writer has to grapple with understanding and expressing issues is so exacting that this hobby soon sharpens thought processes, refining the… — Johnson C. Philip Copy Share Image
My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
“The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on. Given the… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing. — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes. — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I’m a journalist, and journalists need news. Deprive them of it, and they go a bit barking. Deprive them of news long enough, and… — Lionel Shriver 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 either of… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“The idea is that you don't only have one destiny. Younger and younger, kids are pressed to decide what they want to do with… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.' — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at… — Lionel Shriver 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 something so… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Politics is not an issue whether you like or dislike , but every citizen must involve. — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
The thing about hitting kids is, think about if you were doing the same thing to another adult. Hitting your kid is really the… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue, — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls. — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Businesses acting as businesses, not as charitable donors, are the most powerful force for addressing the pressing issues society face(s) — Tony Elumelu Copy Share Image
For a lot of women, one of the hardest things about leadership is the desire to be liked by everyone. That's often inconsistent with… — Sarah Weddington Copy Share Image
I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
It concerns me when people frame the conversation about equal pay about the entertainment business. I don't want the wage gap issue to be… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
