Quotes by : Penelope Lively

I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do....

I have a print - you can buy them at the Victoria and Albert Museum - of a photograph of the village....

Children are infinitely credulous. My Lisa was a dull child, but even so she came up with things that....

We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons.....

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless....

The question is, shall it or shall it not be linear history. I've always thought a kaleidoscopic view....

So now we are young still but a better sort of young.

The power of language. Preserving the ephemeral; giving form to dreams, permanence to sparks of sunlight.....

The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away,....

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain....