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Lionel Shriver Quotes

I owe thanks to a thoughtful, sophisticated readership hungry for challenging subject matter, for honest portrayals of parenthood, and for fiction whose meaning is neither obvious nor morally pat.

Lionel Shriver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 18, 1957

Topics

Meaning Thoughtful Matter Hungry

I always knew if I had some success that I'd no longer be thought of as Dick Van Dyke's brother.

Jerry Van Dyke

Success Brother Thought Always Knew

I've always been dabbling in suits, but like a lot of people in the neighborhoods I grew up in, I had my snapback; I had my v-neck. I still got them in the closet. I got my J's, my Forces; it was standard.

Jidenna

People Suits Always Up Been Forces

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

Joan Didion

Decision You Right Anything Sure

Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.

Amy Sherald

Truth Art Food Soul Painting Said

I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.

Amanda Hocking

Community School College Writing Out

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

Michael Korda

Dreams You Dream More

If you're gonna start a story, you start from the beginning, right?

Luke Evans

Beginning Start Story You Right

So much of our fictional medievalism is distorted through a lens of Protestantism and the Reformation, slanted even further through Victorian anti-Catholicism. The depiction of actual medieval attitudes toward the Church is remarkably rare.

Judith Tarr

Church Lens Through Rare Even Much

You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.

Joni Mitchell

Life Singing Die You Know Young

Every customer wants to run on all the clouds.

Diane Greene

Clouds Customer Run Wants Every

Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

Derek Bok

Think Position Where Universities

I think I'm a very notoriously positive comic.

Chris Gethard

Positive Think I Think Comic Very