Lionel Shriver: What would you like to be remembered for?

Originally asked

Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions

A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Lionel Shriver said elsewhere, not written here

As not having been tiresome.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 May 2016 source ↗

Others on this question

Clive Myrie British journalist, newsreader, and presenter

As a decent bloke.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2024 source ↗

Gregg Wallace English broadcaster and writer

As the happy man who made happy television programmes.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 April 2022 source ↗

As someone who did what he could with what he had.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 November 2018 source ↗

Malcolm Gladwell Staff writer at The New Yorker; author of The Tipping Point and Outliers

As a writer who took cheering up his listeners seriously.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 April 2021 source ↗

My own bad prose.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 May 2016 source ↗

A selection of single paragraphs that perfectly capture something I’ve thought or felt, even if it’s shameful or perverse.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 May 2016 source ↗

He knows who he is. I’ve apologised. I wish it made more difference.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 May 2016 source ↗

I would have taken more drugs.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 May 2016 source ↗

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