“mind Nell was writing: —ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers —paint on face only” — Lily King Artist Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things. — Lily King Copy Share Image
I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating. — Lily King Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you just find a culture that breaks your heart,” she said finally.” — Lily King Culture 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
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 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
There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter… — 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… — Lily King 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 Eroticism Copy Share Image
Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on. — Lily King Books 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 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 think of companies like Nokia having anthropologists who study how people use cell phones, who do that kind of commercial and… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“I asked her if she believed you could ever truly understand another culture. I told her the longer I stayed, the more… — Lily King Culture Copy Share Image
Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. Granted, you don't have the physical disruption and disorientation, but writing a novel… — Lily King Books 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 Copy Share Image
“I search for in my work, in these far-flung places, to find a group of people who give each other the room… — Lily King Culture 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
“Who can explain why a few words in a particular tone can clear acres of sudden unfamiliarity? ...Would that person look up… — Lily King 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 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
“He smelled of cigarettes and whiskey, the smell of Cambridge and youth.” — Lily King Cambridge 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 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
