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About Lionel Shriver
American author, journalist, and cultural commentator
Lionel Shriver is an American author, journalist, and cultural commentator. She is known for fiction and for her sharp public commentary, especially through her novel We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her novel We Need to Talk About Kevin won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005. Beyond her fiction, she has worked as a journalist and as a commentator on cultural questions, which gives her writing a distinctly observant and argumentative edge.
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- “We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.”Lionel Shriver
- “Dieting is odious and can require years of determination and sacrifice. I entirely understand the impulse to…”Lionel Shriver
Homesickness: more sayings
- “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”Robert Frost
- “Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life.”Becky Chambers
- “It will no longer be necessary to leave one's own home in order to find work in the surrounding districts, wh…”José Saramago
More Longing quotes
- “I know that touching you will be understanding my fingers for the first time.”Kels Adeline Sapp
- “I suppose because I grew up a thousand miles from the sea and missed the great age of passenger liners, I hav…”Bill Bryson
- “The enlightened worry more about the problems of the world than about their own problems, and their longing f…”Ilchi Lee
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Books by Lionel Shriver
We need to talk about Kevin
2003
Post-Birthday World
2007
Big Brother
2013
So much for that
2010
Double fault
1997