Quotes from Leni Zumas

I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss.

As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing.

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.

Part of being a writer is feeling that constant dissatisfaction, thinking about what else you could do, and also knowing when it's time to leave a project.

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.

There's always something else to work on and different solutions to these problems in the next thing. We each have a certain set of obsessions which we each cycle through.

Sometimes you just feel like you could work forever on something and never know when it's done.