Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there. — Lily King 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 a good bit of time in Spain. — Lily King Copy Share Image
“And this led to another round of mapping as we separated men from women, finding that while the male ethos usually represented the culture… — Lily King 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 just gone… — Lily King 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 see it.… — Lily King 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 parents divorced… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“mind Nell was writing: —ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers —paint on face only” — Lily King 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 forth among… — 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 but the… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“-Can we have one day when we don't have to talk about the meaning of life? -I don't think we ever talk about anything… — Lily King 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 start writing,… — Lily King Copy Share Image
There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy. — Lily King Copy Share Image
