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Penelope Lively quotes

English Author March 17, 1933

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A stone has been cast into the reliable immutable pond of the past, and as the ripples subside everything appears different. The reflections are quite other; everything has swung and shattered, it is all beyond recovery Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively quote: "I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."
I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements. Penelope Lively
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
And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not. Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively quote: "I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version,..."
I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for. Penelope Lively
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively quote: "If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you..."
If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow. Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively quote: "I have no idea where I am going, she thought, but I have begun."
I have no idea where I am going, she thought, but I have begun. Penelope Lively
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
Penelope Lively quote: "I didn't write anything until I was well over 30."
I didn't write anything until I was well over 30. Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively quote: "He felt marvellously conscious of the moment, of here and now,..."
He felt marvellously conscious of the moment, of here and now, of this day. Penelope Lively
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
Penelope Lively quote: "We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes..."
We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from. Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively quote: "I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation."
I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation. Penelope Lively
It was as though she had some alter ego who told her she did not belong here. But she had never known anywhere else, and where else could there be? Penelope Lively

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