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Lionel Shriver

In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it’s nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar.

– Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver

Hungry for both fantasy and inspiration, readers crave protagonists who, after overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, triumph at the end of the day.

– Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver

The sign that I don’t like the book I’m reading is finding myself watching reruns of ‘Come Dine With Me.’

– Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver

For pity’s sake, if you don’t take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else. Continue suffering, and it’s not the author’s fault. It’s yours.

– Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver

The dumbest childhood vow I ever made was to finish every book I started.

– Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver

Laws to protect ‘public health’ are potentially infinite, especially once they no longer have to be supported by any research whatsoever.

– Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver

Clearly, freedom does not extend to the right to harm other people.

– Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver

A manuscript under way always gave me something to do; only while enduring the aimlessness between books was I truly glum.

– Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver

When we conceive of happiness as a static state, effectively a place toward which we are aimed but at which most of us will never feel we’ve quite arrived, then the vision becomes exclusionary.

– Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver

Set a good example as parents, since the most convincing argument that a girl can become a computer coder is that her mother is one.

– Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver

The absence of doll babies in my toy chest didn’t seriously influence my later decision not to become a mother; rather, I disdained Hasbro’s Baby Alive wetting doll because I was already the kind of girl who would grow up to be childless by choice.

– Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver

As a child, I was always a sucker for anything in miniature, and it didn’t have to be a dress: a desk, a Matchbox truck. Perhaps a childhood attraction to shrunken but compellingly realistic facsimiles is commonplace, if only because children themselves are compellingly realistic facsimiles of the giants who rule their world.

– Lionel Shriver

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