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

Change, Rather, Social

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
Penelope Lively

Time, Power, Past

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, After

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
Penelope Lively

History, Rather, Memory

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
Penelope Lively

Choices, Constantly

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

Until, Read, Bible

You learn a lot, writing fiction.
Penelope Lively

Writing, Learn, Fiction

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: March 17, 1933

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