“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.” WritingEndsStoriesWanted Author:Lily King
“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
“When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd just gone through the first Gulf War.” FirstsWarCountryWantedSchoolPresidentGoneFinishedGraduatesGraduate SchoolGulf War Author:Lily King
“I loved languages, and loved learning languages. It was fantastic. But I was alone there. I remember that time as a real Virginia Woolf time. More than any language it was her language that influenced me.” RealRememberLanguageFantasticVirginiaWoolfLearning Language Author:Lily King
“I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.” CharacterSchoolBitsFranceGraduatesSpainGraduate School Author:Lily King
“I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things.” PeopleMightSituationPowerless Author:Lily King
“I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.” TryingIdeasIntellectual Author:Lily King
“I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.” PeopleReadingFictionConnectingExhilaratingLove Of ReadingReading Fiction Author:Lily King
