Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“You write out of experience, and a large part of that experience is the life of the spirit; reading is the liberation… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“I know quite well why I became a historian.... It was because dissension was frowned upon when I was a child: 'Don't argue, Claudia,'… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“The question is, shall it or shall it not be linear history. I've always thought a kaleidoscopic view might be an interesting heresey. Shake… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“He felt marvellously conscious of the moment, of here and now, of this day.” — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“But her thoughts are often of the past. That evanescent, pervasive, slippery internal landscape known to no one else, that vast accretion of data… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
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… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“I have a print - you can buy them at the Victoria and Albert Museum - of a photograph of the village street of… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
