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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 try and write honestly about what I see around me now."

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"I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and then I attend public school for two hours, three times per week."

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"I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now."

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"Right now I'm single. Single, and loving it."

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"Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it."

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"What is now proved was once only imagined."

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"But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print."

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"I rather like getting away from fiction."
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"It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it."
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"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."
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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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"We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance."
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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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"You learn a lot, writing fiction."
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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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"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."
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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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