Writers & Lovers

by Lily King

I don’t write because I think I have something to say. I write because if I don’t, everything feels even worse.

‘It’s always a choice between fireworks and coffee in bed,’ Fabiana says. ‘It always is.’

Now I understand it’s how boys are raised to think, how they are lured into adulthood. I’ve met ambitious women, driven women, but no woman has ever told me that greatness was her destiny.

For a moment all my bees have turned to honey.