Author: Lionel Shriver

Quotes

What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away.

What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away.

- 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.

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

Formal declarations of mistrust, pre-nups are emotionally unfortunate. They overtly plan for failure, and thus involve a jarring cognitive dissonance.

Formal declarations of mistrust, pre-nups are emotionally unfortunate. They overtly plan for failure, and thus involve a jarring cognitive dissonance.

- Lionel Shriver

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

- 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?

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

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