--- title: "4 Pencil Quotes By Lily King" description: "4 Pencil quotes by Lily King. Plus more from Lily King and more Pencil sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef7/lily-king-10967_brain_when-i-pick-up-a-pencil-that-this-is-a-r_97953.jpg" --- > [When I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/when-i-pick-up-a-pencil-that-this-is-a-rough-draft-this-is-not-going/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef7/lily-king-10967_brain_when-i-pick-up-a-pencil-that-this-is-a-r_97953.jpg) > [It also signals to me, when I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/it-also-signals-to-me-when-i-pick-up-a-pencil-that-this-is-a-rough/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90b/lily-king-10967_failure_it-also-signals-to-me-when-i-pick-up-a-p_915201.jpg) > [I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/i-definitely-feel-that-my-brain-works-differently-and-words-come-out/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c07/lily-king-10967_brain_i-definitely-feel-that-my-brain-works-di_2080298.jpg) > [Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/ever-since-high-school-i-ve-been-writing-in-a-spiral-notebook-in-2/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc5/lily-king-10967_computer_ever-since-high-school-i-ve-been-writing_2314745.jpg) ## Other authors on Pencil ## More by Lily King > [“And this led to another round of mapping as we separated men from women, finding that while the male ethos usually represented the culture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/and-this-led-to-another-round-of-mapping-as-we-separated-men-from/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/when-i-finished-graduate-school-the-first-george-bush-was-president/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/when-i-pick-up-a-pencil-that-this-is-a-rough-draft-this-is-not-going/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/i-didn-t-major-in-anthropology-in-college-but-i-do-feel-i-had-an/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [I'm very interested in the way people interact emotionally.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/i-m-very-interested-in-the-way-people-interact-emotionally/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [“mind Nell was writing: —ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers —paint on face only”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/mind-nell-was-writing-ornamentation-of-neck-wrists-fingers-paint-on/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/i-have-three-stepfamilies-as-well-as-my-family-of-origin-i-ve-had-to/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/perhaps-all-science-is-merely-self-investigation/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/every-fictional-thing-i-wrote-gave-me-strength-to-write-another-and/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [“-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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/can-we-have-one-day-when-we-don-t-have-to-talk-about-the-meaning-of/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/ever-since-high-school-i-ve-been-writing-in-a-spiral-notebook-in/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/there-are-certain-tribes-in-the-middle-sepik-that-eat-raw-bat-a/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [“You have so much to offer, she was often told, as if she had a tray of cigarettes and candy perpetually strapped to her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/you-have-so-much-to-offer-she-was-often-told-as-if-she-had-a-tray-of/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [“Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/was-it-possible-in-any-relationship-to-not-disappoint-to-do-anything/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/i-love-this-idea-of-trying-to-create-that-intellectual-eroticism-that/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pencil/lily-king/#itemlist", "name": "4 Pencil Quotes By Lily King", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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 I really evaluate every single word and sentence and make decisions. I like that step of polishing while I'm rewriting the entire thing, not just cutting and pasting. 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