“I squat there and think about how you get trained early on as a woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them. Sometimes you mix the two up in a terrible tangle that’s hard to unravel.” FeelingsWomenPerceptionClarity Book:Writers & Lovers Source: Writers & Lovers
“I don’t write because I think I have something to say. I write because if I don’t, everything feels even worse.” WritingFeelingsWriters Book:Writers & Lovers Source: Writers & Lovers
“To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.” DifferentFeelingsCultureChildhoodMinesDifferent Families Author:Lily King
“I always had this put-together family, and I always identified as the outsider. And that's a position where I feel most comfortable, and yet I feel an incredible longing to belong. That is really a strong feeling from my childhood - a desire to be part of a group.” FeelsFeelingsTogetherDesireStrongGroupsChildhoodPositionComfortableLongingIncrediblesOutsidersStrong Feeling Author:Lily King
“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.” WritingFeelingsSentencesEditing Author:Lily King
“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. I 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. I tend to add more in the margins. 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.” WritingFeelingsSchoolBrainComputerHigh SchoolNotebook Author:Lily King
