“When you have people who get angry quickly, you have to learn the rules to avoid being in that situation.” Quote by Lily King
“There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.” ThinkingWritingI CanTwoImagineSingersSongwritersSinger SongwritersAnthropologists Author:Lily King
“I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.” StoriesGivenPagesDetails Author:Lily King
“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
