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 a…

- Lily King

Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?

- Lily King

I've also done things that put me in odd situations.

- Lily King

I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things.

- 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 c…

- Lily King

When I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mi…

- Lily King

I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things. My first three novels were all about families. Thin…

- 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…

- 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…

- Lily King