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Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver
American Journalist
Born: May 18, 1957
Book Good Life People World You
Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison
As a teenager, I ached to grow up even more than I dreaded to. I craved escape from my parents' impositions on what I believed. Lionel Shriver
Parents Teenager Dreaded More Up Escape Than Even Grow Grow Up Believed
Criminality being partially preordained may seem to let culprits off the hook. Yet it also makes the proclivity seem ineradicable and suggests that reform is unlikely: once a baddie, always a baddie. Lionel Shriver
Unlikely Once Criminality Hook Seem Also Makes Always Off Reform May Being Preordained
Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion. Lionel Shriver
Experience Illusion Will Our Volition Perhaps Scientists Discover Clockwork Eventually
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. Lionel Shriver
Best Judiciary Control Mental Mental Illness Factors Individuals Powerful Off Behaviour Illness Believing
Beauty is aspirational - an ideal that mortals approach but seldom attain. Lionel Shriver
Beauty Approach Seldom Attain Mortals Ideal
As a child, I was always a sucker for anything in miniature, and it didn't have to be a dress: a desk, a Matchbox truck. Perhaps a childhood attraction to shrunken but compellingly realistic facsimiles is commonplace, if only because children themselves are compellingly realistic facsimiles of the giants who rule their world. Lionel Shriver
World Realistic Rule Giants Miniature Dress Only Truck Perhaps Attraction Because Always Child Childhood Children Anything Commonplace Themselves Who Sucker Desk
When we conceive of happiness as a static state, effectively a place toward which we are aimed but at which most of us will never feel we've quite arrived, then the vision becomes exclusionary. Lionel Shriver
Happiness Vision Will State Static Never Feel Toward Conceive Most Becomes Arrived Effectively Quite Place Which Then Us
Laws to protect 'public health' are potentially infinite, especially once they no longer have to be supported by any research whatsoever. Lionel Shriver
Health Research Once Laws Potentially Supported Longer Protect Infinite Whatsoever Any Public Public Health
For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else. Continue suffering, and it's not the author's fault. It's yours. Lionel Shriver
You Suffering World Fault Shine Else Something Something Else More Take Read Sake Continue Author Pity Yours Novel Loads
Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether. Lionel Shriver
Life Time You Reading Books Dangerously Bad Wrong Altogether Off Precious Turn Certain Your Activity Waste
Hungry for both fantasy and inspiration, readers crave protagonists who, after overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, triumph at the end of the day. Lionel Shriver
Day End Of The Day Hungry Triumph Seemingly Both Inspiration Obstacles Protagonists Overcoming Readers Insurmountable End After Crave Fantasy Who
Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities. Lionel Shriver
Opportunities Take Advantage Take Advantage Like Authors Publicity Publishers
Most women work not from yearning for fulfilment but yearning to pay the mortgage. Lionel Shriver
Work Women Pay Mortgage Most Yearning Fulfilment
'The Feminine Mystique' goads me to gratitude that, thanks to forerunners like Betty Friedan, I've had the opportunity to pursue a career. Lionel Shriver
Me Gratitude Opportunity Thanks Pursue Mystique Had Betty Like Feminine Career
I read 'The Bell Jar' as an adolescent and, like most teenagers, had no problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going for her - looks, talent, opportunity, with her 'whole life ahead of her,' yadda, yadda, yadda - yet was spiraling into misery. Lionel Shriver
Life Woman Problem Opportunity Young Teenagers Everything Adolescent No Problem Misery Had Talent Like Most Identifying Looks Read Going Young Woman Jar Who Whole Bell Her
Few Amazon punters will explore a book with the depth of an 800-word review. Lionel Shriver
Book Will Few Review Amazon Depth Explore
I might defend the reviewing trade, but a handful of haughty hired hands no longer having the last word on books is not a bad thing. Lionel Shriver
Word Books Bad Haughty Having Bad Thing Longer Trade Hired Reviewing Handful Hands Might Thing Last Defend
During the protracted tooth-and-nail tussle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries, I was one of those fierce partisans desperate for the first black candidate with a serious shot at the White House to win the nomination. Lionel Shriver
Win Desperate Black First White White House Those Obama Between Hillary House Democratic Hillary Clinton Nomination Protracted Clinton Candidate Barack Barack Obama Fierce Shot Serious
Awful film adaptations follow novelists for the rest of their lives. An atrocious movie of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' could have stigmatised the book, aggrieved the novel's fans, and blighted my reputation forever. Lionel Shriver
Book Fans Rest Reputation Follow About Atrocious Could Talk Forever Movie Novel Novelists Film Lives Awful Need Adaptation Kevin
Though a fine writer, Scott Spencer will forever be associated with a cheesy, sentimental film starring the vapid box-office draw Brooke Shields. Lionel Shriver
Will Spencer Draw Though Brooke Shields Fine Vapid Writer Cheesy Scott Forever Sentimental Film Associated
The premiere of Lynne Ramsay's film of 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' at the Cannes film festival provides an apt juncture at which to celebrate the miraculous power - not of film but of fiction. Lo, I have created a monster. Lionel Shriver
Celebrate Power Monster Apt About Miraculous Talk Provides Juncture Festival Fiction Cannes Which Created Premiere Film Film Festival Need Kevin
Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare. Lionel Shriver
Book People Rare Merely Like Well Because Oddly Surprisingly
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
Matter Thanks Hungry Thoughtful Neither Morally Parenthood Sophisticated Obvious Readership Nor Subject Subject Matter Pat Owe Fiction Meaning Whose Challenging Honest
I guess I understand a public intellectual to be somebody who moves public discourse forward: someone who either says something new or says something that everybody knows to be true but is afraid to express. Lionel Shriver
Somebody Be True Everybody Guess Says Someone Something Something New True New Knows Understand Discourse Intellectual Afraid Moves Either Public Public Discourse Who Forward Express
I think Britain is a little better at bringing intellectuals into discourse than America, where I'm from. Though I would say, perhaps, that the U.K. prefers its intellectualism to be entertaining. Lionel Shriver
Better Think Say Though Would Entertaining Perhaps Discourse Intellectually Intellectuals Than America Where Little Bringing Britain
As any traveller knows, heading elsewhere is one thing, getting back quite another. Lionel Shriver
Elsewhere Back One Thing Heading Knows Another Any Getting Quite Traveller Thing
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