“And this led to another round of mapping as we separated men from women, finding that while the male ethos usually represented… — Lily King Men From Women 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 Country 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 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
“mind Nell was writing: —ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers —paint on face only” — Lily King Psychology 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
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
“-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
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
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
“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 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
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
“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
“Helen declared Western civilization's lack of understanding of other peoples' customs to be the world's greatest and gravest social problem.” — Lily King Culture Copy Share Image
“He smelled of cigarettes and whiskey, the smell of Cambridge and youth.” — Lily King Cambridge 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
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
I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail. — Lily King Details Copy Share Image
