Quotes by Lily King

Lily King

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. Granted, you don’t have the physical disruption and disorientation, but writing a novel is like entering a new culture. You don’t know what the hell is going on. And every day you feel like you have nothing, you’re going nowhere. Or you feel that first it’s going somewhere, but then you get into that horrible middle part.

Culture

Hell

Writing

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don’t know what the hell is going on.

Hell

Novel

Writing

Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.

Form

Would Be

Writing

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.

Grandmother

Reading

Way

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.

Notebook

School

Writing

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.

Notebook

School

Writing

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.

Ends

Stories

Writing

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.

Childhood

Feelings

Strong

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.

Brain

Hands

Keyboards

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.

Children

Father

Mother

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Active

Angry

Attention

Bats

Book

Brain

Cells

Character

Childhood

Children

Communication

Country

Culture

Cutting

Decision

Delicacy

Details

Different

Disappoint

Done

Editing

Ends

Fall

Father

Feelings

Fiction

Form

Grandmother

Hands

Hell

House

Human Nature

Ideas

Illusion

Initials

Intellectual

Investigation

Keyboards

Language

Might

Mistake

Mother

Murder Mysteries

My Family

Notebook

Novel

Odd

Pages

People

Phones

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Quotes by Lily King

Lily King

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don’t know what the hell is going on.

Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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