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.
pages details stories
I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.
delicacy tribes bats
There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.
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.