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. Lily King More Quotes by Lily King More Quotes From Lily King When you have people who get angry quickly, you have to learn the rules to avoid being in that situation. Lily King angry situation people 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. Lily King mother father children 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. Lily King yelling voice sides 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. Lily King writing character book There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy. Lily King delicacy tribes bats 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. Lily King grandmother reading way Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on. Lily King 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. Lily King form would-be writing 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! Lily King murder-mysteries writing people I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating. Lily King reading people fiction 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. Lily King writing two thinking I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things. Lily King situation might people 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. Lily King spain character school I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail. Lily King details pages stories I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along. Lily King intellectual trying ideas
