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Lionel Shriver Quotes

American - Journalist | May 18, 1957 -

Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.

Reality Plausible Pleases

Donald Trump wouldn't work on paper. Obnoxious, crass, boastful, and vulgar, with garish tastes and a Stepford wife - as a fictional character, he'd seem too crudely drawn. Even in a trashy airport thriller, readers wouldn't buy such a boor as president.

Work Character Wife Donald Trump Buy

A Trump presidency feels as if we've crawled between the covers of a really crummy book.

Book Presidency Between Trump Really

I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at our own game or in racking my brains over what could possibly constitute a contribution when novels pale before the newspaper.

Alone World Game Contribution Over

We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.

Speak Mean Planet Humans Often

I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us.

Universe Person Regrets Us Chances

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.

Life I Am People Ideas Up Modern

When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall. But writing fiction takes gall.

Perspective Writing Class Own He

There was a point in the latter 1990s at which, suddenly, every sitcom and drama in sight had to have a gay or lesbian character or couple. That was good news as a voucher of the success of the gay rights movement, but it still grew a bit tiresome: 'Look at us! Our show is so hip, one of the characters is homosexual!'

Success Good Character Look Gay

Trump is not charismatic. He is artless and politically clumsy and wears his egotism on his sleeve.

Clumsy He Trump Sleeve Egotism His

Trump can't string a single grammatical sentence together, and at the podium, he is lumpen and awkward.

Together Single Awkward He Podium

Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.

Write Autobiography Often Novelists

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