Lionel Shriver (2016) | Break A Rule A Day

When you're on a bicycle at a red light with no car or pedestrian
in sight, do you still wait for the green? Do you obey every
single law? Surely fearful compliance with every niggling
regulation defies the much-vaunted "freedom" that is the premise
of democracy. Maybe that’s what drives our fascination with film
and fiction criminality: we envy renegades. Is breaking a rule a
day better than an apple for your health?


Lionel Shriver is an American author and journalist, living in
the United Kingdom. Her novel We Need to Talk About
Kevin won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005. She
writes frequently for the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and
The Independent.