“When you're looking around for metaphor or simile, I do think it's often helpful to keep inside the world of the book, to gather your comparisons from the stuff particular to that world - be they king salmon and aviation fuel, or pot roasts and spatulas.” ThinkingWorldBookStuffParticularKingsMetaphorFuelAviationComparisonHelpfulPotSimileSalmonSpatulas Author:Leigh Newman
“My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to compress for speed.” ThinkingWritingNaturalIssuesSceneSpeedInclination Author:Leigh Newman
“Maybe it's easier to think about dishonesty and what kind of trouble you can get into as a writer when love and honesty collide and you sidestep that collision, either because you want to protect somebody or you want to blame somebody - which are the usual impulses in love: protection and blame, frequently at the same time - so you don't exactly tell the truth.” ThinkingWantKindTroubleHonestyEasierProtectBlameProtectionImpulseTelling The TruthUsualDishonestyCollisionCollideLove And Honesty Author:Leigh Newman
“I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people who grow really early and have to learn how to take care of themselves. They have trouble hinging their lives with anybody else.” PeopleThinkingSelfCareGrowsCasesWonderfulTroubleTake CareSelf RelianceExileRelianceUncommon Author:Leigh Newman
“I don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos.” ThinkingSeemsKidsGrowing UpGrowingChaosInevitablePermanentSurroundings Author:Leigh Newman
“Often, I think that my brothers were the reason I didn't do something really stupid in my teenage years; I didn't want to disappoint them. Even though was I was pretty committed to disappointing everybody else.” ThinkingWantYearsReasonStupidBrotherCommittedMy BrotherTeenageDisappointDisappointingTeenage YearsReally Stupid Author:Leigh Newman
“I've managed to create intimacy with people I know, and people that I don't know. The longer things stay inside of us, the more we think they are black or tainted, but they're really not.” PeopleThinkingBlackIntimacy Author:Leigh Newman
