“I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things.” Quote by 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
“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!” PeopleWritingFactsBodyWonderMysteryMurderDescriptionLullsMurder Mysteries Author:Lily King
“Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.” IfsWritingWould BeFormNovelObservationAnthropologists Author:Lily King
“Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.” KnowsWritingNovelHellFieldwork Author:Lily King
“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.” WaySaidReadingMassGrandmotherBotheredAnthropologyMead Author:Lily King
“There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.” KindCertainMiddleBatsTribesDelicacy 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.” FeelsWritingLooksI CanSchoolComputerHigh SchoolNakedPencilsNotebookPolishedSpirals Author:Lily King
“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.” IfsFeelsHandsBrainPencilsKeyboards 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
