Books Quote by Penelope Lively Download Open image “Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.” — Penelope Lively ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Climate Environment Novel
It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In terms of fiction, there are a number of writers who are thinking about the future of the environment whose work complements mine. Kim… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
“Climate change is a normal, natural and perpetual process which occurs, and has always occurred, with sublime indifference to man's puny input.” — James Delingpole Copy Share Image
“It is the first book, maybe the only book to talk about how the problem of climate change can be addressed in a positive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting. — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Literature is the equivalent of the climate scientist’s computer simulations: set up some new starting conditions, run the whole complicated process and see what… — Alison Gopnik 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
“The power of language. Preserving the ephemeral; giving form to dreams, permanence to sparks of sunlight.” — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
