Quotes About Lily King

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.

men who wrote tender, poetic sentences that tried to hide the narcissism and misogyny of their stories.

But the world is deaf. The world—and really I mean the West—has no interest in change or self-improvement

Lots of sex tonight,' she said. 'The men are a bit threatened by the stones, apparently. The night of the minyana they need to be reassured that their women still want them.' 'Reassure away.

It's from an Amy Lowell poem we all loved in college. Wine is sort of thrilling and sensual, and bread is familiar and essential.' 'Wine, I suppose.' 'Would it have turned to bread?

She said that it was often taboo in a culture to have a real discussion of the dominant traits; in our culture, for example, a real discussion of capitalism or war was not permitted, suggesting that these dominant traits had become compulsive and overgrown.

until I started dating the funny guy in workshop who wrote gloomy two-page stories set in New Hampshire mill towns.

Elinor has an overenthusiasm for her own ideas and a voluble dearth of enthusiasm for those of others, most especially her teacher's.

She poured me another drink and in the light breeze of her movements I smelled again the manufactured smell of these women.