“Here I am, at eighty-five the week after next, writing a novel without the expectation of whether I’ll finish first or it’ll finish first.” —Penelope Lively https://t.co/fw37rAsCa8
"Ah yes, that extraordinary business of the malevolence of teenage girls,' she said when asked about this. 'It would have been a good thing to have written about. I don't think I could recover it now, it's too far away, but I really should have."