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I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

- 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.

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

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.

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I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.