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“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.”

Quote by Leni Zumas

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Leni Zumas is a contemporary writer known for her exploration of themes such as identity, power, and social justice. Born in 1972, she has made significant contributions to the literary world with her unique voice and thought-provoking narratives. more

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“I have what I came to find in my research is a mild form of synesthesia, though I never would have labeled it as such. It's how I think about numbers and letters. They all have inherent genders.”

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“For me, the genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them.”

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“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.”

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“I'm always interested in encountering people who are synesthetic and seeing how they experience things.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or instabilities.”

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“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.”

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