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It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.
Penelope Lively
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Penelope Lively
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 17
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I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
Penelope Lively
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.
Penelope Lively
Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
Penelope Lively
I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.
Penelope Lively
If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow.
Penelope Lively
All history, of course, is the history of wars.
Penelope Lively
I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.
Penelope Lively
Grief-stricken. Stricken is right it is as though you had been felled. Knocked to the ground pitched out of life and into something else.
Penelope Lively
There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable.
Penelope Lively
If people don't read, that's their choice a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.
Penelope Lively
I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
Penelope Lively
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
Penelope Lively
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
Penelope Lively
In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will. As a writer it puts one at a distinct advantage.
Penelope Lively
I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.
Penelope Lively
History unravels circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.
Penelope Lively
People die, but money never does.
Penelope Lively
Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.
Penelope Lively
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement. Towns and cities, too, which always retain the ghost of their earlier incarnations beneath today's concrete and glass.
Penelope Lively
I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.
Penelope Lively
