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Penelope Lively

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

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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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It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

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I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

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There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

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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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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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I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

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Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

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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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