You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.
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
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
Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?
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
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…
I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things. - Lily King
I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things.
I've also done things that put me in odd situations. - Lily King
I've also done things that put me in odd situations.
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
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…
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
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…
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
Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. Granted, you don't have the physical disruption and disorientation, but writing a novel is…
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
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…
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