Penelope Lively Quotes

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.

When I was a kid, and I was watching TV, I just loved it so much that I wanted to crawl into that TV.

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures.

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.

I was brought up in the north of England, which is probably no rougher than anywhere else, but I remember as a child being kind of mesmerized by girls fighting on the playground.

When I was a kid, I was kind of obsessed with that movie 'Dick Tracy.' Burger King had all this 'Dick Tracy' stuff, and I collected all of it, and I had the posters, and I watched it on a loop.

I grew up singing in church as a little boy.

When I was a kid, I really loved game shows. For whatever reason, I was fascinated with them and watched them a ton.

My earliest memories are being in the lab, and the way the cement felt and the way it smelled, and the way the countertops looked and it just being this wonderful, warm, happy place where it was just full of toys.

As a little girl, I was in the church chorus.

I can remember that 2005 Ashes as a kid and being really absorbed in that whole series at 14 years old. It was magical.

Singing actually came first. As a kid, I grew up singing in church and around the house.

In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.

Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.

The first thing the boy Garion remembered was the kitchen at Faldor's farm. For all the rest of his life he had a special warm feeling for kitchens and those peculiar sounds and smells that seemed somehow to combine into a bustling seriousness that had to do with love and food and comfort and security and, above all, home. No matter how high Garion rose in life, he never forgot that all his memories began in that kitchen.

It may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess, they are the worst remembered and so offer the least resistance to that process by which we mold them nearer and nearer to an ideal which is fundamentally artistic, or at least nonfactual.

Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head.

As a child, I certainly had a fascination with monsters and vampires.

In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister.