“When people ask what kind of nonfiction I write, I say 'all kinds,' but really I mean I don’t write any kind at all: I’m trying to dissolve the borders between memoir and journalism and criticism by weaving them together.” PeopleWritingTryingKindMeanTogetherAsksCriticismMemoirAll KindsJournalismBordersNonfictionWeaving Author:Leslie Jamison
“I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is one of the biggest gifts at our disposal.” ThinkingWritingPersonsSubjectsReaderTopicsNewness Author:Leslie Jamison
“Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.” WritingLongHas BeensCommunityClassPovertyWrittenDifficultyReducingTourismNuanceArmchairs Author:Leslie Jamison
“It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did.” IfsWritingCharacterPlotGesturesLiberating Author:Leslie Jamison
“Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.” ThinkingWayFeelsWritingImportantBookReasonPastMy OwnPleasureNiceReturnReaderProjectsMovedStuckSolace Author:Leslie Jamison
