Leni Zumas Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• In undergraduate classes, I often see writers who are still simply imitating. I mean, we all imitate - that's how we learn to speak or write in the first place - but they're writing a Dean Koontz novel or something.

  Leni Zumas

  Writing, Mean, Class

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• 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."

  Leni Zumas

  Teacher, Way, Students

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• Portland is a pretty magnificent place to live.

  Leni Zumas

  Portland, Places To Live, Magnificent

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