I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.

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• Penelope Lively:

  It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and th

• Penelope Lively:

  I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to chi

• Penelope Lively:

  We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.

• Penelope Lively:

  I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

• Penelope Lively:

  I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 19

• Penelope Lively:

  I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the c

• Penelope Lively:

  I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.

• Penelope Lively:

  Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.

• Penelope Lively:

  I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like t

• Penelope Lively:

  I rather like getting away from fiction.