Author: 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.

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

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 a plain one.

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 a plain one.

- Penelope Lively

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

- Penelope Lively

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

- Penelope Lively

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