Writer Quotes by Leslie Jamison

9 Writer quotes by Leslie Jamison

Jamison’s blend of memoir and essay emerges in this handful of reflections, offering a quick window into how she thinks about the writer’s life.

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When you're a writer and something difficult happens to you, one of the things involved in that is this emergence of narrative…

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In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even…

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The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the…

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I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or…

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When people ask what kind of nonfiction I write, I say 'all kinds,' but really I mean I don’t write any kind…

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I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction:…

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It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or…

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I really believe in people putting stories out there that contain the most difficult moments because nothing to me is more lonely…

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After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's…

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It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point…

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The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep…

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I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to…

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In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even the flaws…

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I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a…

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I do like arranging things. I like order. I basically like all these things that are the opposite of what people associate with the…

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I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because…

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Whatever we can’t hold, we hang on a hook that will hold it.

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“I obsessed, and told myself this obsession was empathy. But it wasn't, quite. It was more like inpathy. I wasn't expatriating myself into another…

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Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in…

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12-step recovery is very focused on abstinence, and that's bled into the broader understanding of treatment. It would be most useful to have multiple…

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