Quotes about Penelope Lively

I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first,...

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I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

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I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.

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I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.

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I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have...

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I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change...

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Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they...

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Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

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Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to...

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Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.

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Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I...

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All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to...

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