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Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

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

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

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

I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

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

I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm.

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Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.