Language Quotes by Leni Zumas

Portland is a pretty magnificent place to live.

— Leni Zumas

When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer.

— Leni Zumas

I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when I was…

— Leni Zumas

In my writing classes, I don't outlaw any genre writing.

— Leni Zumas

There's always something else to work on and different solutions to these problems in the next thing. We each have a certain set of…

— Leni Zumas

If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green.

— Leni Zumas

I am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, because those are in some ways…

— Leni Zumas

Sometimes you just feel like you could work forever on something and never know when it's done.

— Leni Zumas

I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of…

— Leni Zumas

For me, the genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them.

— Leni Zumas

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language,…

— Leni Zumas

As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing.

— Leni Zumas