Quotes by : Lionel Shriver

I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.

How lucky we are, when we are spared what we think we want!

Although the infertile are entitled to sour grapes, it's against the rules, isn't it, to actually have....

There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero,....

Membership of a larger group is not an identity. Being Asian is not an identity. Being gay is not an....

Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one....

To a man and woman, all of her elderly patients had been surprised to be old - which Avery privately....

The existence of other people is essentially awkward.

I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

Are you chuckling yet? Because then along came you. A big, broad meat eater with brash blond hair and....