“I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss.” LooksPersonsFeltLoss Author:Leni Zumas
“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.” WayWritingCharacterFeltWonderfulFemaleAttractiveVirtuousFlawedFemale Characters Author:Leni Zumas
“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.” BookSometimesWantedFeltCuttingPagesHintsRedundant Author:Leni Zumas