Quotes by Leni Zumas

Leni Zumas

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.”

Students

Teacher

Way

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.

Men

Narrators

Writing

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

Elements

Essentials

Numbers

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.

Giving

Moving

Space

I am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, because those are in some ways the most hopeful.

Hopeful

People

World

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

Looks

Loss

Persons

I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren’t very good at it.

Connections

Cutting

Writing

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.

Numbers

Research

Thinking

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.

College

Contemporary Fiction

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

People

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Feelings

Five Senses

Focus

Giving

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Hopeful

Knowing

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Loss

Magnificent

Men

Moving

Narrators

Numbers

Outlaw

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Persons

Places To Live

Portland

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Research

Seeing

Space

Stories

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Quotes by Leni Zumas

Leni Zumas

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.”

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.

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

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.

I am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, because those are in some ways the most hopeful.

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

I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren’t very good at it.

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.

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.

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

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