Penelope Lively Quotes

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

Penelope Lively

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimePastPresentFictionHappens

You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind.

Jim Davis

MindYouBedPlayLyingSomething

As the founder and former chief executive of two publicly traded companies, I have had a great deal of exposure to how debt markets work.

John Delaney

WorkGreatDebtTwoFounderChief

I haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist.

Maya Hawke

FarmerAlwaysActProfessorEnglish

The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blond, because I live in L.A., and I want to look like I go surfing without any physical effort.

John Lydon

LiveEffortHairColorLookBorn

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

Simon Mawer

PeopleBankUniversitySawWhoMost

In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect.

Lou Barletta

ServicePeopleCitySmallBudget

It seems a bit weird to call someone your girlfriend when you have a child.

Jason Isaacs

ChildWeirdSomeoneYouGirlfriend

I believe that you should not be just raised on what the music is right then. You should be raised on what is from your past, what your parents have grown up with, because it's a really big piece of your culture that you need to know about, and I'm glad my mother has done that for me.

Diana DeGarmo

MotherMusicCulturePastParents

Global warming is real. It is happening today. It is being charted by our satellites. It is being charted by our scientists. It is being charted by those of us in this body, and I think the real key is if we are ready to admit that fact and take the action to make the necessary conversion.

Dianne Feinstein

TodayActionThinkKeyBodyReady

Temporary solutions often become permanent problems.

Craig Bruce

ProblemsBecomePermanentTemporary

I always create book soundtracks to capture the overall mood I'm going for and listen to them as I write. Those songs and scores really fuse with the scenes in my mind.

Claudia Gray

MindBookCreateMoodCaptureWrite

In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They're ecologically unsustainable. And they're hugely undemocratic.

Arundhati Roy

ProblemsThinkCaliforniaBigDams

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