Leni Zumas Quotes

• It just fascinates me, those private mechanisms that we use to make sense of the world - whether they have to do with the five senses or not. I think literature is one of the only kinds of art that truly lets us into that.

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  Art, Thinking, Five Senses

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• Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text.

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  Moverse, Espacio, Dar

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• The act of language or the act of denying language carries its own heaviness.

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  Language, Heaviness, Carrie

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• There's relief in white space for the reader.

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  White, Space, Relief

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• Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the world comes into someone's head.

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  Long, World, Membranes

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• I have what I came to find in my research is a mild form of synesthesia, though I never would have labeled it as such. It's how I think about numbers and letters. They all have inherent genders.

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  Thinking, Numbers, Research

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

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  Numbers, Essentials, Elements

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

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  Letters, Green, Persons

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• 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.

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  Littles, Remember, Dramatic

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• I'm always interested in encountering people who are synesthetic and seeing how they experience things.

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  Personas, Ver

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• Whether consciously or unconsciously, I felt myself drawn to writing a female character who was pretty flawed and not very virtuous or wonderful or attractive in these ways that throughout literary history we've come to expect female characters to be.

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  Escritura, Carácter, Camino

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• In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or instabilities.

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  People, Focus, Stories

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

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  Book, Cutting, Hints

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

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  Forever, Done, Sometimes

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• Another obligation that I have as a teacher is to make available to students a range of options and devices and approaches, rather than saying "well here's one way to do it and that's the only way that's good."

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  Teacher, Way, Students

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• I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss.

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  Loss, Looks, Persons

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• So often we think of a wound or a loss as making a person feel more deeply, become a better person. But I don't think that always happens. I think it can constrict people's lives, especially if they don't push beyond it.

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  Pérdida, Pensamiento, Gente

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• Even while I was working on the novel I would also write short stories as relief, just to be in a wieldier world that could negotiated more easily and more quickly. In the novel, I even changed the narrator from a man to a woman.

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  Writing, Men, Narrators

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• 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 obsessions which we each cycle through.

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  Different, Next, Problem

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• Portland is a pretty magnificent place to live.

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  Portland, Places To Live, Magnificent

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

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  Writing, Class, Outlaw

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• En general, enseñar a escribir me convierte en un lector mucho mejor, porque hay muchas maneras de escribir una buena frase o una buena historia, y como profesor estoy obligado a considerarlas todas, en lugar de quedarme en la seguridad de mis propias tendencias.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Writing

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

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  Thinking, Decision, Watches

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• 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 twelve or something. I was reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond.

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  Reading, College, Contemporary Fiction

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• In undergraduate classes, I often see writers who are still simply imitating. I mean, we all imitate - that's how we learn to speak or write in the first place - but they're writing a Dean Koontz novel or something.

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  Writing, Mean, Class

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