“He smelled of cigarettes and whiskey, the smell of Cambridge and youth.” — Lily King Cambridge Copy Share Image
“mind Nell was writing: —ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers —paint on face only” — Lily King Artist 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 Bats Copy Share Image
“You have so much to offer, she was often told, as if she had a tray of cigarettes and candy perpetually strapped… — Lily King Analogy 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… — Lily King Feminism Copy Share Image
“Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?” — Lily King Disappoint Copy Share Image
I had one family that used a lot of yelling and screaming, and that was very normal. Another side of my family,… — Lily King Family Copy Share Image
I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand… — Lily King Editing 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… — Lily King Life 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 Ends 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
It also signals to me, when I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere,… — Lily King Failure 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
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
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
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
I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along. — Lily King Ideas 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
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 Bush 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 Asked 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
“Glimpses of how it really was before us are rare, if not impossible.” — Lily King Rare Copy Share Image
I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail. — Lily King Details Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things. — Lily King Might Copy Share Image
When you have people who get angry quickly, you have to learn the rules to avoid being in that situation. — Lily King Angry Copy Share Image
To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were… — Lily King Childhood Copy Share Image
“You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an… — Lily King Communication Copy Share Image
“It came to him that he didn't like holidays. . . . They bore down on you. Each one always ended up… — Lily King Holiday Copy Share Image
“Despite everything, I believed somehow there was time. Love's first mistake. Perhaps love's only mistake.” — Lily King Love Copy Share Image
“You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an… — Lily King Communication Copy Share Image
I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather… — Lily King Brain 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
“Anthropology at that time was in transition, moving from the study of men dead and gone to the study of living people,… — Lily King Anthropology Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things. My first three novels were all about… — Lily King Children Copy Share Image
I always had this put-together family, and I always identified as the outsider. And that's a position where I feel most comfortable,… — Lily King Belong Copy Share Image
