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Penelope Lively

"I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for."

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"I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for."

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"I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write."

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"Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid."

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"I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro."

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"As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat."

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"Now the advantage is all with the hitters."

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"I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can't put on weight though, no matter how much I eat."

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"Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in."

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"We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary."

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"He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child."

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"We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance."
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"You learn a lot, writing fiction."
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"I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction."
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"I rather like getting away from fiction."
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"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."
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"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."
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"It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency."
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"We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible."
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"I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement."
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"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."
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