American - Journalist | May 18, 1957 -
Some of the best scenes in drama take almost no time - helping to illustrate that life-changing events in real life often occur in a split second, after which nothing is ever the same.
Lionel Shriver
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By stereotyping my work's audience as self-involved and prissy, women-only packaging also insults my readers, who could all testify that trussing up my novels as sweet, girly, and soft is like stuffing a Rottweiler in a dress.
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I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done.
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As individuals are best off believing they control their behaviour, the judiciary is best off imputing that control - barring powerful extenuating factors such as mental illness.
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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.
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In Shaker Heights, Ohio, one of America's first planned communities, order and harmony are prized.
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Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes.
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At the keyboard, unrelenting anguish about hurting other people's feelings inhibits spontaneity and constipates creativity.
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As a woman, I'd be uneasy about being given the power to determine what is insulting to women in general.
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Jonathan Lethem's 10th novel, 'The Blot,' is engaging, entertaining, and sharp for its first two-thirds. Then it goes to hell.
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What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away.
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Most books are three-thirds rubbish.
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