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Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively
English Author
Born: Mar 17, 1933
Always Fiction History Past Writing You
Related authors: A. A. Milne H. G. Wells J. K. Rowling Lewis Carroll Mary Shelley Samuel Johnson Simon Sinek Terry Pratchett
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. Penelope Lively
Life Beautiful Woman Beautiful Woman Way Intrigued Physical Physical Appearance Direct Than Person Often Happen Which Plain Appearance Differently Things Things Happen
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency. Penelope Lively
Me Everything Seems Disconcerting Contingency Mix Happens Us Choice
We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance. Penelope Lively
Constantly Make Happenstance Choices
I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past. Penelope Lively
Past Archaeology Historian Very Get Any Whether Interested Aspect Recent Recent Past
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
Feeling See Could Had Combination Always Go Intense Just Children Literature Which Interest If I Could
I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children. Penelope Lively
Thought Think Say Something Had Particular Children Anything Might
We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible. Penelope Lively
Bible Our Ears Out Mythology Until Read Came Greek
I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for. Penelope Lively
Grateful King Version Up James Grew Which Eternally Agnostic Now
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. Penelope Lively
You Change Walk Society See London About Seems Something Absolutely Pick Up Revolutionary Where Different Then Suddenly Utterly
Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country. Penelope Lively
Feeling Country Down Really Should Deep Deep Down
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
Strange Writing Some Something More Like Know Non-Fiction Another Mixture Going May Maybe Fiction After Which Again Novel
I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years. Penelope Lively
Home Family First Country Few Own My Own Had Over Since House Empty Been Years Which Then Grandmother Twenty Lived Homes Last Last Few Years Two
Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going. Penelope Lively
You Own Every Climate Get Going Novel
Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story. Penelope Lively
Book Distinctive Characters Structure Points Allow Main Narrative Version Different Wanted Conventional Whereby Story Forms View Each
We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from. Penelope Lively
Past Sense Our Identity Where Need
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
Time Past Medium Tricky Concerns Becomes Exists Fiction After Happens Central Even Hardly Present

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