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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But I honestly, usually, even if I feel like there's something, it's all integrated with the novel.

And so I can't take it out.

And I just... Elizabeth Stroud has this great line in My Name is Lucy Barton.

I don't know if you've ever read that book.

It's fabulous.

And her mentor says writers are ruthless.

And you have to be ruthless if you want to be a writer.

And I think that's kind of true.

I mean, I just...

I think it's really important to... The writer self has got to be ruthless.

And then... And then the person...

I've had to send people a copy of the book before publication and write the letter and explain what I've done.

Yeah, no, it's true.

But every single detail is false.

I often say that I've had these emotions.

You know, these emotions are true.

I've experienced them.

But how, like all the scenes, all the dialogue, the characters, the details of the characters, it's all made up.

And then, you know, people can say, but you went to a university in the South.

The people who it speaks to, it speaks to so strongly.

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