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Author - Penelope Lively
Quotes by : Penelope Lively
language
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do....
photo
I have a print - you can buy them at the Victoria and Albert Museum - of a photograph of the village....
language
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons.....
ereaders
It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless....
relationships
I never told her the other story, in which she stars, in which she is always the heroine – a romanticized....
age
So now we are young still but a better sort of young.
gifts
Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep....
language
The power of language. Preserving the ephemeral; giving form to dreams, permanence to sparks of sunlight.....
past
The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away,....
work
We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.
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