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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
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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 do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
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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 consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
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.
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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.
Penelope Lively
Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.
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.
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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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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.
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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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Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form logic a message.
Penelope Lively
If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow.
Penelope Lively
We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.
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Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
Penelope Lively
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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History unravels circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.
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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.
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
I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
Penelope Lively
