Quotes by : Penelope Lively

Charlotte views her younger selves with a certain detachment. They are herself, but other incarnations,....

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....

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....

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.

Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep....

But however minimal, however threadbare, it (collective memory) is ballast of a kind. We all need that....

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