Quotes by Penelope Lively

About Penelope Lively:

Dame Penelope Margaret Lively is a British writer of fiction for both children and adults. She has won both the Booker Prize (Moon Tiger, 1987) and the Carnegie Medal for British children's books (The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, 1973).
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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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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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The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

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Author Bio

  • NamePenelope Lively
  • DescriptionBritish novelist
  • BornMarch 17, 1933
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Radio Host
  • AwardsCarnegie Medal; Dame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire