Lily King
Lily King
Lily Kingis an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
notebook writing school
Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook.
delicacy tribes bats
There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.
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.