Penelope Lively
Biography
Quotes
- Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
- I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.
- The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.
