|
|
Penelope Lively Quotes
All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself. - Penelope Lively Quotes
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 Quotes
Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country. - Penelope Lively Quotes
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. - Penelope Lively Quotes
Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going. - Penelope Lively Quotes
Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are. - Penelope Lively Quotes
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 its not. - Penelope Lively Quotes
I didnt think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children. - Penelope Lively Quotes
I didnt want it to be a book that made pronouncements. - Penelope Lively Quotes
I didnt write anything until I was well over 30. - Penelope Lively Quotes
I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation. - Penelope Lively Quotes
I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmothers since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years. - Penelope Lively Quotes
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement. - Penelope Lively Quotes
I married young and had children young. - Penelope Lively Quotes
I rather like getting away from fiction. - Penelope Lively Quotes
Im intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a persons life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one. - Penelope Lively Quotes
Im not an historian and Im not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody whos walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are. - Penelope Lively Quotes
Im not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether its palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past. - Penelope Lively Quotes
Im now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which Im eternally grateful for. - Penelope Lively Quotes
Im writing another novel and I know what Im going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction. - Penelope Lively Quotes
Ive always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence. - Penelope Lively Quotes
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency. - Penelope Lively Quotes
It was a combination of an intense interest in childrens literature, which Ive always had, and the feeling that Id just have a go and see if I could do it. - Penelope Lively Quotes
Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm. - 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
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
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
Theres a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. - Penelope Lively Quotes
We all need a past - thats where our sense of identity comes from. - Penelope Lively Quotes
Quotes Cloud
Allow Book Characters Country Deep Different Down
Each Experiment Favorites Feeling Have Importance Know
Main Most Myself Names Narrative Points Probably
Read Reading Really Should Story Structure That
This Version View Wanted Were With Would
Writing
|
|
|
