English - Author | March 17, 1933 -
I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.
Penelope Lively
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Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.
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I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.
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I rather like getting away from fiction.
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I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.
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I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
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The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
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It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
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We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
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I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement.
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I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
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You learn a lot, writing fiction.
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