Leigh Newman Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I made myself a rule: write out of love. And when you love somebody, you have to tell the truth about who they are - not the cute "truth" in your head of who they are, the one where you did everything right and they did everything wrong.

  Leigh Newman

  Cute, Writing, Telling The Truth

  Source: therumpus.net

• It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

  Leigh Newman

  Writing, Fiction, Writing Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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 speed.

  Leigh Newman

  Writing, Thinking, Issues

  Source: therumpus.net

• The minute I landed back in Alaska, it was back to hip boots and fish guts. This cultural flipping wasn't easy - especially on top of the post-divorce fighting that was still going on between my parents. But this is why you don't write a memoir at age fourteen.

  Leigh Newman

  Writing, Divorce, Fighting

  Source: therumpus.net

• I didn't write the memoir with any sort of intention of feeling better. I wrote the memoir because I had a weird need to write a good story. But once I was done, I did feel better about myself. Not better, just calmer. Because a tremendous onus had been lifted off my day-to-day.

  Leigh Newman

  Writing, Feel Better, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.

  Leigh Newman

  Writing, Interesting, Mature

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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