Quotes from Leigh Newman

My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around.

There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter.

If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out.

It feels like people talk a lot, in their relationships and in therapy. But my family wasn't like that. My dad wasn't and I wasn't. Things were said, but via the language of action.

My dad felt pretty strongly that I know about the basic workings of a plane and so he taught me how to read and set the instruments, as well as the basics of taking off and landing.

You see things really different when your father is so intimately, so indisputably in charge of your continued existence on the planet.