Lily King Quotes
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.

Quotes to Explore
-
I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
-
I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
-
The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
-
I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
-
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
-
One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
-
Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
-
I don't want to be a bust.
-
Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
-
I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
-
I wasn't a ladies' man.
-
I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.
-
Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
-
I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
-
Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
-
Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
-
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
-
I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
-
The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes.
-
A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get.
-
Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
-
People are so used to men playing these amazing roles that they sometimes can't even see that there is no reason it has to be a man other than it was written that way - this is true for diversity in general.
-
I'm certainly hoping that 3D gets to the point where people do not notice it because once they stop noticing it, it just becomes another tool and an aid to help tell a story.
-
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.