Lily King Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.

  Lily King

  Communication, Writing, Active

• 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.

  Lily King

  Writing, Editing, Feelings

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• 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

  Book, Writing, Character

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• 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.

  Lily King

  Writing, Culture, Hell

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• 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, Thinking, Two

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• 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.

  Lily King

  Notebook, Writing, School

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• 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.

  Lily King

  Writing, Stories, Ends

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• 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

  Writing, Murder Mysteries, People

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• 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

  Writing, Would Be, Form

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

  Lily King

  Writing, Hell, Novel

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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.

  Lily King

  Notebook, Writing, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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