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Penelope Lively Quotes & Sayings
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I rather like getting away from fiction.
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Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
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I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
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Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
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I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.
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We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.
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Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.
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You learn a lot, writing fiction.
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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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I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.
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I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
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We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
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We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.
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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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It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.
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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 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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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 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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Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
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