Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization. Leni Zumas More Quotes by Leni Zumas More Quotes From Leni Zumas Sometimes you just feel like you could work forever on something and never know when it's done. Leni Zumas doneforeversometimes 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 hintscuttingbook 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 focusstoriespeople 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 hopefulpeopleworld Whether consciously or unconsciously, I felt myself drawn to writing a female character who was pretty flawed and not very virtuous or wonderful or attractive in these ways that throughout literary history we've come to expect female characters to be. Leni Zumas writingcharacterway 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 connectionscuttingwriting I'm always interested in encountering people who are synesthetic and seeing how they experience things. Leni Zumas seeingpeople If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green. Leni Zumas greenpersonsletters 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 knowingfeelingsthinking
