When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
Part of being a writer is feeling that constant dissatisfaction, thinking about what else you could do, and also knowing when it's… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
Even while I was working on the novel I would also write short stories as relief, just to be in a wieldier… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
In general, teaching writing makes me a far better reader because there's so many ways to write a good sentence or a… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
Whether consciously or unconsciously, I felt myself drawn to writing a female character who was pretty flawed and not very virtuous or… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization. — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
In undergraduate classes, I often see writers who are still simply imitating. I mean, we all imitate - that's how we learn… — 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
