“I know every girl has her own form of beauty, its just a matter of discovering it and celebrating it.” Quote by Coco Rocha
“I think of companies like Nokia having anthropologists who study how people use cell phones, who do that kind of commercial and marketing work, selling out to corporations. I wonder if that has something to do with the image of the more innocent anthropologist, now gone.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindUseCompanyWonderGoneStudyMarketingPhonesInnocentSellingCellsCorporationsCell PhoneAnthropologistsSelling OutNokia Author:Lily King
“Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.” WritingBookIdeasCharacterHappensGrowsCreatingChaptersHandful Author:Lily King
“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.” UsedSidesVoiceNormalMy FamilyRaisesYellingYelling And Screaming Author:Lily King
“I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced when I was eleven, and my father immediately married a woman with three children and was with her for five years. When they got divorced, he immediately married a woman with four children. In the meantime, my mother married a man who had seven children. So I was going from one family to another between the ages of eleven and eighteen.” MenFeelsYearsChildrenDifferentAgeMotherCultureThreeFatherParentFiveFourCollegeMarriedMajorsOur ChildrenSevenFive YearsDivorcedElevenAnthropologyEighteenDifferent Cultures Author:Lily King
“When you have people who get angry quickly, you have to learn the rules to avoid being in that situation.” PeopleSituationAngry Author: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