Penelope Lively Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not just for distraction, sustenance, to pass the time, but she has read in a state of primal innocence, reading for enlightenment, for instruction, even. ... She is as much a product of what she has read as of the way in which she has lived; she is like millions of others built by books, for whom books are an essential foodstuff, who could starve without.

  Penelope Lively

  Book, Reading, Support Systems

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

  Penelope Lively

  Book, Want, Made

  "'I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.

• If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

  Penelope Lively

  Book, Reading, People

  Penelope Lively (2011). “How It All Began”, p.164, Penguin UK

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