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Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.
Penelope Lively
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Penelope Lively
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 17
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Radio Personality
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Cairo
Egypt
Penelope Low
Dame Penelope Margaret Lively
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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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Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
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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
There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable.
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I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
Penelope Lively
We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.
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All history, of course, is the history of wars.
Penelope Lively
If people don't read, that's their choice a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.
Penelope Lively
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
Penelope Lively
You learn a lot, writing fiction.
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
History unravels circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.
Penelope Lively
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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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.
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I rather like getting away from fiction.
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
If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow.
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Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
Penelope Lively
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.
Penelope Lively
Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
Penelope Lively