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Top 10 Stef Penney Quotes (2025 Update)

Stef Penney Quote: “I love research, and in fact it’s liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say “I’ve just got back from the 1860s, and you got it wrong.” Anyway, it’s fiction.”

1. “I love research, and in fact it’s liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say “I’ve just got back from the 1860s, and you got it wrong.” Anyway, it’s fiction.”

— Stef Penney

Stef Penney Quote: “Whenever I pick up a book I think, “Tell me something I don’t know.””

2. “Whenever I pick up a book I think, “Tell me something I don’t know.””

— Stef Penney

Stef Penney Quote: “I despise this weakness in myself – this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action...”

3. “I despise this weakness in myself – this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action...”

— Stef Penney

Stef Penney Quote: “Endings are never neat, because when life goes on, there is no end. You may want to speculate about what the characters get up to afterwards, but I feel it would be presumptuous of me to dictate that.”

4. “Endings are never neat, because when life goes on, there is no end. You may want to speculate about what the characters get up to afterwards, but I feel it would be presumptuous of me to dictate that.”

— Stef Penney

Stef Penney Quote: “Because I work quite slowly, I have to keep myself interested over a long research and writing period. So I can’t see myself writing about modern middle-class Londoners anytime soon.”

5. “Because I work quite slowly, I have to keep myself interested over a long research and writing period. So I can’t see myself writing about modern middle-class Londoners anytime soon.”

— Stef Penney

Stef Penney Quote: “I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life.”

6. “I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life.”

— Stef Penney

Stef Penney Quote: “Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.”

7. “Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.”

— Stef Penney

Stef Penney Quote: “Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn’t getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn’t a long-held ambition, and certainly the idea came first.”

8. “Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn’t getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn’t a long-held ambition, and certainly the idea came first.”

— Stef Penney

Stef Penney Quote: “I don’t use real people for inspiration.”

9. “I don’t use real people for inspiration.”

— Stef Penney

Stef Penney Quote: “I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite “cinematic” devices, which came very naturally to me.”

10. “I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite “cinematic” devices, which came very naturally to me.”

— Stef Penney

Stef Penney Quote: “I don’t think I could write about someone I didn’t feel some sympathy for.”

11. “I don’t think I could write about someone I didn’t feel some sympathy for.”

— Stef Penney

Stef Penney Quote: “If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.”

12. “If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.”

— Stef Penney

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