Lily King
Lily King
Lily Kingis an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
reading grandmother way
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.
writing hell novel
Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.
writing would-be form
Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.
writing murder-mysteries people
You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!
reading people fiction
I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.
ideas intellectual trying
I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.
people might situation
I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things.
self investigation
Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.
illusion disappoint initials
Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?
three human-nature my-family
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 them. I became an observer of human nature because when you are in those situations you have to be.
thinking phones cells
I think of companies like Nokia having anthropologists who study how people use cell phones, who do that kind of commercial and marketing work, selling out to corporations. I wonder if that has something to do with the image of the more innocent anthropologist, now gone.
people way
I'm very interested in the way people interact emotionally.
communication writing active
I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.
fall communication pay
You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.