Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are. Penelope Lively curiosityinvolve Change image and share on social
Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country. Penelope Lively atavisticcountrydeep Change image and share on social
I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements. Penelope Lively bookmakepronouncement Change image and share on social
I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children. Penelope Lively childthink Change image and share on social
Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going. Penelope Lively climategenerate Change image and share on social
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 experimentfavoriteimportance share on social
I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years. Penelope Lively countryemptyfamily Change image and share on social
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 it's not. Penelope Lively 1950sabsolutelychange share on social
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency. Penelope Lively choicecontingencydisconcert Change image and share on social