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Leni Zumas Quotes: "I am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, because those are in some ways the most hopeful."

I am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, because those are in some ways the most hopeful.



Leni Zumas Quotes: "Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text."

Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text.




Leni Zumas Quotes: "As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing."

As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing.



Leni Zumas Quotes: "Sometimes you just feel like you could work forever on something and never know when it's done."

Sometimes you just feel like you could work forever on something and never know when it's done.




Leni Zumas Quotes: "I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of things."

I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of things.



Leni Zumas Quotes: "In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or instabilities."

In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or instabilities.



Leni Zumas Quotes: "Part of being a writer is feeling that constant dissatisfaction, thinking about what else you could do, and also knowing when it's time to leave a project."

Part of being a writer is feeling that constant dissatisfaction, thinking about what else you could do, and also knowing when it's time to leave a project.




Leni Zumas Quotes: "When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer."

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 Quotes: "Portland is a pretty magnificent place to live."

Portland is a pretty magnificent place to live.



Leni Zumas Quotes: "In my writing classes, I don't outlaw any genre writing."

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



Leni Zumas Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss."

I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss.




Leni Zumas Quotes: "I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it's difficult."

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it's difficult.



Leni Zumas Quotes: "Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization."

Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.



Leni Zumas Quotes: "I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very good at it."

I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very good at it.



Leni Zumas Quotes: "I'm always interested in encountering people who are synesthetic and seeing how they experience things."

I'm always interested in encountering people who are synesthetic and seeing how they experience things.



Leni Zumas Quotes: "If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green."

If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green.



Leni Zumas Quotes: "For me, the genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them."

For me, the genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them.



Leni Zumas Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "There's relief in white space for the reader."

There's relief in white space for the reader.