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 Read Quote
Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion. Lionel Shriver Read Quote
Conservative supporters might either have the courage of their convictions or, if truly ashamed, revise them, but they should at least refute the proposition that defending your own interests is only acceptable if you’re broke. Lionel Shriver Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The sign that I don’t like the book I’m reading is finding myself watching reruns of ‘Come Dine With Me.’ Lionel Shriver Read Quote
Hungry for both fantasy and inspiration, readers crave protagonists who, after overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, triumph at the end of the day. Lionel Shriver Read Quote
Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject is baffling. Lionel Shriver Read Quote
Weight having become politicised, anyone with a profile in the media who either subscribes to or departs from the template of tininess implicitly represents a constituency, whether they want to or not. Lionel Shriver Read Quote
