Lily King
Lily King
Lily Kingis an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
mistake rough-drafts want
It also signals to me, 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.
illusion disappoint initials
Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?
childhood feelings culture
To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.
writing stories ends
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 story I wanted to tell.
pages details stories
I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.
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.
delicacy tribes bats
There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.
hands brain keyboards
I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard.
writing editing feelings
I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.
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.
yelling voice sides
I had one family that used a lot of yelling and screaming, and that was very normal. Another side of my family, nobody would raise their voice at all.