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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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Radio Personality
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Cairo
Egypt
Penelope Low
Dame Penelope Margaret Lively
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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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I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.
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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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People die, but money never does.
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Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form logic a message.
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Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
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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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Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.
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History unravels circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.
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Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
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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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I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
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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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