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It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.

Penelope Lively

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.

Tags: books, ebooks, ereaders, kindle

But however minimal, however threadbare, it (collective memory) is ballast of a kind. We all need that seven-eighths of the iceberg, the ballast of the past, a general past, the place from which we ca...

Penelope Lively

But however minimal, however threadbare, it (collective memory) is ballast of a kind. We all need that seven-eighths of the iceberg, the ballast of the past, a general past, the place from which we ca...

Tags: context, historical narrative, history, memory, time, time passing

About Author
Dame Penelope Margaret Lively (née Low; born 17 March 1933) is a British writer of fiction for both children and adults. Lively has won both the Booker Prize (Moon Tiger, 1987) and the Carnegie Medal for British children's books (The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, 1973).

We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.

Penelope Lively

We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.

Tags: work

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.

Penelope Lively

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.

Tags: work

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

Penelope Lively

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

Tags: loss, think, social change