Leni Zumas Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Leni Zumas

  Writing, Men, Narrators

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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.

  Leni Zumas

  Loss, Thinking, People

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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.

  Leni Zumas

  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.

  Leni Zumas

  Thinking, Numbers, Research

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

  Leni Zumas

  White, Space, Relief

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