Lily King

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769 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Jul

Lily King’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I just I really need to tell myself, you know, with my next book, I can do better.

I can do better, you know, and I and I still have that feeling.

And this new book that I'm thinking about, you know.

And it just feels like I can do better, you know, and you never want to be like, I don't know if I can do it as well.

Yes, I think it would be, for me, it would have been completely destabilising.

Oh, it was going along fine.

I had a dead senator on the first page and I was going to channel all of my, you know, rage about the Trump administration into this book.

And then I hit a brick wall at page 90 and I just didn't.

I didn't care who'd done it.

You know, it was a problem.

Yeah.

And I yeah, I don't know.

I just I couldn't really I wasn't engaged fully.

And then right at that very time where I was getting very discouraged.

and trying to write plot summaries of my book, which is really not a good idea for me.

That's not how I work.

Ann Patchett sent me a PDF of Tom Lake.

And I had such an excuse not to write for a day.

And I printed it out and I started reading it.

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