Leni Zumas Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Leni Zumas

  Different, Next, Problem

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

  Leni Zumas

  Writing, Class, Outlaw

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• In general, teaching writing makes me a far better reader because there's so many ways to write a good sentence or a good story, and as a teacher I'm obliged to consider them all, rather than staying in the safety of my own tendencies.

  Leni Zumas

  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.

  Leni Zumas

  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.

  Leni Zumas

  Reading, College, Contemporary Fiction

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