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
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Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
Penelope Lively
I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
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We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.
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The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
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Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm.
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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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Absolutely,
Change,
Completely,
Different,
London,
Pick,
Revolutionary,
See,
Society,
Something,
Then,
Up,
Utterly,
Walk,
Where
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