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32 quotes by Penelope Lively

Penelope M. Lively Lively in 2013 Born (1933-03-17) 17 March 1933 (age 81) Cairo, Egypt Occupation Writer Language English Citizenship British Period 1970–present Genre Novels, children's fiction (notablycontemporary fantasy) Notable awards Carnegie Medal 1973 Booker Prize 1987 Dame Penelope Margaret Lively, DBE, FRSL (born 17 March 1933) is a prolific, popular and critically acclaimed writer of fiction for both children and adults. She has...
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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... →

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

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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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It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

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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;... →

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We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

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We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

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I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or... →

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

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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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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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The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

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

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