Penelope Lively Quotes

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

Penelope Lively

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 17, 1933

Topics

YouOwnGoingGetNovelEvery

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed.

Joe Strummer

WisdomAgePowerControlYouEarly

I was raised in restaurants. My parents opened their first restaurant, Buonavia, in Queens when I was just 3. This business has always been my way of life. As a kid, home was reserved only for sleeping. After school, you could find my sister and I helping out at the family restaurant.

Joe Bastianich

LifeFamilyHomeBusinessSchool

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

John Bunyan

DespairCastleOwnerGiantDoubting

When people help me out, even with something like a move or a ride to the airport, I'm always thinking 'Are you sure it's okay? Are you sure you don't mind?'

Melissa McBride

RidePeopleMindMeThinkingHelp

During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.

Anatoly Chubais

MyselfTrainingGovernmentElection

Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie.

Spike Jonze

TogetherWritingStartFeelingTry

We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.

Steven Tyler

ChangeServiceThinkYouCountryGo

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.

Tom Clancy

LifeChangeWorldYouDreamNothing

Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

Roselyn Sanchez

StartLanguageLearnActingGoTake

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

DeathEndWishReliefSomeMany

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.

Judith Light

HairLookAnythingFunctionHow

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

Jose Clemente Orozco

PraiseMastersIndeedCouldProduce

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