“Even while I was working on the novel I would also write short stories as relief, just to be in a wieldier world that could negotiated more easily and more quickly. In the novel, I even changed the narrator from a man to a woman.” MenWorldWritingStoriesNovelChangedReliefShort StoryNarrators Author:Leni Zumas
“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.” WorldLongLong TimeDevicesOrganizeMembranesLiterary Devices Author:Leni Zumas
“It just fascinates me, those private mechanisms that we use to make sense of the world - whether they have to do with the five senses or not. I think literature is one of the only kinds of art that truly lets us into that.” ThinkingWorldKindArtUseLiteratureFiveSensesMake SenseMechanismFive Senses Author:Leni Zumas
“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.” PeopleWorldWayTinyHopefulFascinatedIncremental Change Author:Leni Zumas
