Wells Quote by Penelope Lively Download Open image “I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.” — Penelope Lively ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Wells Writing
I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then,… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself. — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just write about… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My first entries… — Julianna Baggott 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
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
My heart jumps out of its cage to see what the fuss is about. Damn thing. Always so hopeful, but my voice hides it… — Sarah Wylie Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans. Well, roll my breakfast cause I'm a hungry man. — Big Joe Turner Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
