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Lionel Shriver Quotes

The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Myself Me Book Reading Finding Come

I wanted all my stores to be the same, to offer the same customer experience, whether I was there or not.

Jimmy John Liautaud

Experience Customer Same Offer

I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.

Yourself Me Believe Think You Find

'The Phantom of the Opera' is the biggest thing I've ever done, bigger even than 'Cats' which, in itself, I never thought we'd top.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Cats Thought Done Never Top Opera

I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere.

Robert McCloskey

Today New York Book Doing Country

Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid.

Robert Gottlieb

Work Nobody Call Could

I'm fascinated by Bollywood.

Fascinated Bollywood

For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.

You Edge Want See Point Where

Obviously I love the fans, and it's beyond lovely that people like my work, and I love saying 'Hi,' shaking a hand, doing a high five. All that's fine. But the posing for photos is so time-consuming and frankly a bit weird.

Work Love People Saying Weird Doing

For all its ups and downs and challenges, I love writing. We only grow through adversity, so I welcome the difficulties, knowing bumps in the road are my greatest teachers.

Love Adversity Welcome Challenges

I don't know if you guys have ever kissed anybody in real life, but it doesn't always go as planned. It's not always pretty. It doesn't always look like a movie. It usually looks more like 'American Pie.'

Life American You Look Pie Looks

I'm a nature bug.

If I'm in Italy, I'm going to have a cappuccino and two small brioches and then a mix of orange and grapefruit. I don't drink tea in Italy.

Christian Louboutin

Tea Small Orange Drink Two Going

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