Some of the best scenes in drama take almost no time – helping to illustrate that life-changing events in real life often occur in a split second, after which nothing is ever the same. Lionel Shriver Read Quote
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 Read Quote
In grad school, I took a workshop with Scott Spencer, whose excellent novel ‘Endless Love’ had just been turned into a film. We students were in awe of his prestige. Yet Scott himself was chagrined; for good reason, he hated the movie. Lionel Shriver Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’m sometimes asked if I get bored with talking about ‘Kevin,’ and of course, the short answer is yes. Nevertheless, after a long slog in the literary trenches, I never take a single reader for granted and always remind myself that for new readers the unfolding story is fresh. Lionel Shriver Read Quote
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 Read Quote
As any traveller knows, heading elsewhere is one thing, getting back quite another. Lionel Shriver Read Quote