“Sometimes you just find a culture that breaks your heart,” she said finally.” — Lily King Culture Copy Share Image
I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating. — Lily King Copy Share Image
“mind Nell was writing: —ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers —paint on face only” — Lily King Artist Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things. — Lily King Copy Share Image
Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on. — Lily King Books Copy Share Image
When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“Helen declared Western civilization's lack of understanding of other peoples' customs to be the world's greatest and gravest social problem.” — Lily King Civilization Copy Share Image
I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in… — Lily King Copy Share Image
You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like… — Lily King Body Copy Share Image
There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything… — Lily King Copy Share Image
I think of companies like Nokia having anthropologists who study how people use cell phones, who do that kind of commercial and… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. Granted, you don't have the physical disruption and disorientation, but writing a novel… — Lily King Books Copy Share Image
“I asked her if she believed you could ever truly understand another culture. I told her the longer I stayed, the more… — Lily King Culture Copy Share Image
I have three stepfamilies as well as my family of origin. I've had to adjust to them and also go back and… — Lily King Family Copy Share Image
Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for… — Lily King Anthropology Copy Share Image
“Who are we and were are we going? Why are we, with all our "progress" so limited in understanding and sympathy and… — Lily King Freedom Copy Share Image
Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you… — Lily King Computer Copy Share Image
“So much of this trip had been spent gazing at spectacular sights, which always filled me, as this one did now, with… — Lily King Beauty Copy Share Image
“I search for in my work, in these far-flung places, to find a group of people who give each other the room… — Lily King Culture Copy Share Image
When I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to… — Lily King Brain Copy Share Image
Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you… — Lily King Brain Copy Share Image
I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My… — Lily King Age Copy Share Image
“Who can explain why a few words in a particular tone can clear acres of sudden unfamiliarity? ...Would that person look up… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“He smelled of cigarettes and whiskey, the smell of Cambridge and youth.” — Lily King Cambridge Copy Share Image
“Hello and goodbye are the same. Baya ban,” she said. “As many times as you can stand it.” — Lily King Goodbye Copy Share Image
“A year and a half up that little tributary somewhere?’ Tillie said. ‘Good God,” — Lily King Copy Share Image
“What’s the point of all this? Of all what? she asked. Of all this life .” — Lily King Copy Share Image
I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along. — Lily King Eroticism Copy Share Image
Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and… — Lily King Book Copy Share Image
