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Lionel Shriver
Profession : Journalist
Birth : May 18, 1957
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In the perfect world, no one would need pre-nups. But all too often, a misty-eyed romancer at the altar transforms into a vengeful, avaricious fiscal predator when the marriage goes south.
Lionel Shriver
Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.
Lionel Shriver
Happiness isn't a position. It's a trajectory.
Lionel Shriver
I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us.
Lionel Shriver
Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.
Lionel Shriver
Awful film adaptations follow novelists for the rest of their lives. An atrocious movie of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' could have stigmatised the book, aggrieved the novel's fans, and blighted my reputation forever.
Lionel Shriver
Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes.
Lionel Shriver
Trump can't string a single grammatical sentence together, and at the podium, he is lumpen and awkward.
Lionel Shriver
Over my lifetime, heavy usage has woefully eroded profanity's power.
Lionel Shriver
I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done.
Lionel Shriver
A smaller waist is not the solution to all your problems.
Lionel Shriver
In my country, we're sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. But what is happiness?
Lionel Shriver
I am hopeful that the concept of 'cultural appropriation' is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds rubbing up against each other and exchanging ideas and practices is self-evidently one of the most productive, fascinating aspects of modern urban life.
Lionel Shriver
Trump is not charismatic. He is artless and politically clumsy and wears his egotism on his sleeve.
Lionel Shriver
In Shaker Heights, Ohio, one of America's first planned communities, order and harmony are prized.
Lionel Shriver
Authors are free to ignore their editors' advice. I often avail myself of this veto power - sometimes out of a pigheadedness for which I'll pay the price.
Lionel Shriver
At the keyboard, unrelenting anguish about hurting other people's feelings inhibits spontaneity and constipates creativity.
Lionel Shriver
As a woman, I'd be uneasy about being given the power to determine what is insulting to women in general.
Lionel Shriver
Jonathan Lethem's 10th novel, 'The Blot,' is engaging, entertaining, and sharp for its first two-thirds. Then it goes to hell.
Lionel Shriver
What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away.
Lionel Shriver
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