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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
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Penelope Lively
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 17
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Penelope Low
Dame Penelope Margaret Lively
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If people don't read, that's their choice a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.
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People die, but money never does.
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All history, of course, is the history of wars.
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Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
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The day is refracted, and the next and the one after that, all of them broken up into a hundred juggled segments, each brilliant and self-contained so that the hours are no longer linear but assorted like bright sweets in a jar.
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It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
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The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.
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I rather like getting away from fiction.
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the days of our lives vanish utterly, more insubstantial than if they had been invented. Fiction can seem more enduring than reality.
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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.
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I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
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I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
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We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.
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Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form logic a message.
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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.
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The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
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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.
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