Action Quote by Leigh Newman

Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses.

— Leigh Newman

“Pain only seems scary while you're waiting for it to happen. After it does, it's just hurt and recovery.”

— Leigh Newman

I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people who grow…

— Leigh Newman

I wasn't in a position that some other memoirists are, dealing with families who fed them meth, or kidnapped them, or did something that…

— Leigh Newman

The minute I landed back in Alaska, it was back to hip boots and fish guts. This cultural flipping wasn't easy - especially on…

— Leigh Newman

Often, I think that my brothers were the reason I didn't do something really stupid in my teenage years; I didn't want to disappoint…

— Leigh Newman

My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to compress for…

— Leigh Newman

The tough thing is how to cultivate a life where the paramecium of happiness gets a lot of chances to get out and swim…

— Leigh Newman

There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother…

— Leigh Newman

My dad felt pretty strongly that I know about the basic workings of a plane and so he taught me how to read and…

— Leigh Newman

Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering…

— Leigh Newman

After my parents divorced, my father remarried and my brothers were born when I was twelve and sixteen. I was thunderstruck at these kids.…

— Leigh Newman