I am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, because those are in… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
So often we think of a wound or a loss as making a person feel more deeply, become a better person. But… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in encountering people who are synesthetic and seeing how they experience things. — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green. — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes you just feel like you could work forever on something and never know when it's done. — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For me, the genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them. — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
