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I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

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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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Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form logic a message.
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I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
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I rather like getting away from fiction.
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All history, of course, is the history of wars.
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I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
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Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.
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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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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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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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You learn a lot, writing fiction.
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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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We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
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Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
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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.
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The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
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Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
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There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
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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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History unravels circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.
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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.
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