Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for her grandmother, in a way that her grandmother could understand what she was saying. — 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. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes. Then when I put it on the computer, a different part of my brain kicks in and… — Lily King Copy Share
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 when I was eleven, and my father immediately married a woman with three children and was with her for five years. When they got divorced, he immediately married a woman with four children. In the meantime,… — Lily King Copy Share
“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
