Latest Leslie Jamison Quotes from Interviews

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• I think of empathy as a set of cumulative effects, ideally - that it can be a force shaping your habits, shaping where you put your attention and then - if you're hard on yourself, in good ways - pushing you to translate that attention into action, on whatever scale.

  Leslie Jamison

  Thinking, Empathy, Attention

  Source: therumpus.net

• Sometimes I do feel exposed. I have this kind of theory about different channels or levels of relaying experience - when I tell someone, one on one, in a personal context, about something that's happened to me - that has a very different valence, a different charge, than when/if I've said it in a public forum.

  Leslie Jamison

  Different, Levels, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

• I like thinking of the writer as a kind of curator; the collection as curiosity cabinet - in a non-demeaning, non-objectifying sense - but an array, a set of offerings.

  Leslie Jamison

  Thinking, Offering, Curiosity

  Source: therumpus.net

• I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is one of the biggest gifts at our disposal.

  Leslie Jamison

  Writing, Thinking, Topics

  Source: therumpus.net

• Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.

  Leslie Jamison

  Issues, Empathy, Limits

  Source: therumpus.net

• Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.

  Leslie Jamison

  Empathy, Our Actions, Might

  Source: therumpus.net

• In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even the flaws they are admitting are somehow noble, or dysfunctional in an overly edgy, aesthetically pleasing way.

  Leslie Jamison

  Real, Perfect, Admitting

  Source: therumpus.net