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....

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

I never told her the other story, in which she stars, in which she is always the heroine – a romanticized....

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.....

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.

We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.

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