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I rather like getting away from fiction.
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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I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
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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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We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
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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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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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All history, of course, is the history of wars.
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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.
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I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
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We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.
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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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Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
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You learn a lot, writing fiction.
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I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
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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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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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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'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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Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form logic a message.
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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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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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