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Penelope Lively Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

People die, but money never does Picture Quote #1

If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow Picture Quote #1

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Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms Picture Quote #1

Gina has always regarded relationships as shifty business: count on nothing, nothing is forever Picture Quote #1

Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country Picture Quote #1

Every novel generates it's own climate, when you get going Picture Quote #1

I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements Picture Quote #1

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation Picture Quote #1

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I rather like getting away from fiction Picture Quote #1

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from Picture Quote #1

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance Picture Quote #1

You learn a lot, writing fiction Picture Quote #1

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing Picture Quote #1

I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates Picture Quote #1

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All history, of course, is the history of wars Picture Quote #1

History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled Picture Quote #1

Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message Picture Quote #1

Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys Picture Quote #1

If people don’t read, that’s their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form Picture Quote #1

We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible Picture Quote #1

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: The time bomb in the cupboard Picture Quote #1

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Quotes) 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. (Penelope Lively Quotes) 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 (Penelope Lively Quotes) 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 Quotes) People die, but money never does (Penelope Lively Quotes) If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow (Penelope Lively Quotes) Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms (Penelope Lively Quotes) Gina has always regarded relationships as shifty business: count on nothing, nothing is forever (Penelope Lively Quotes) Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country (Penelope Lively Quotes) Every novel generates it's own climate, when you get going (Penelope Lively Quotes) I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements (Penelope Lively Quotes) I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation (Penelope Lively Quotes) I rather like getting away from fiction (Penelope Lively Quotes) We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from (Penelope Lively Quotes) We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance (Penelope Lively Quotes) You learn a lot, writing fiction (Penelope Lively Quotes) Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing (Penelope Lively Quotes) I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates (Penelope Lively Quotes) All history, of course, is the history of wars (Penelope Lively Quotes) History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled (Penelope Lively Quotes) Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message (Penelope Lively Quotes) Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys (Penelope Lively Quotes) If people don’t read, that’s their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction (Penelope Lively Quotes) 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 (Penelope Lively Quotes) The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form (Penelope Lively Quotes) We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible (Penelope Lively Quotes) The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: The time bomb in the cupboard (Penelope Lively Quotes) The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss (Penelope Lively Quotes) 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 (Penelope Lively Quotes) 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 (Penelope Lively Quotes)

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