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Leslie Jamison Quotes

American - Novelist | 1985 -

The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.

Love People Reading Language You

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.

Community Myself Writing Poverty

Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.

Beauty Truth Problem Poverty Easy

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to figure out what to say at the dinner table.

Time Dinner Remember Trying Table

It's kind of funny that I've been branded as the empathy lady when, really, what I'm doing is questioning and interrogating empathy.

Funny Empathy Doing Lady Kind Been

'Tough' is one of the last adjectives I would use to describe myself.

Myself Tough Last Would Describe

The story of getting better can be just as compelling as the story of falling apart.

Story Better Getting Better Falling

I had never really thought of myself as a baby person, but it's just a really profound connection.

Myself Baby Thought Connection Never

I feel like I have a bit of a Type A personality.

Personality Feel I Feel Like Like

I do like arranging things. I like order. I basically like all these things that are the opposite of what people associate with the wild, passionate creative temperament.

Creative People Passionate Wild Like

I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction: because I'm running up against actuality and beholden to the truth in a different way.

Truth Freedom Finding Why Way Write

I really believe in people putting stories out there that contain the most difficult moments because nothing to me is more lonely making than sanitized stories or airbrushed stories that kind of allied how hard it got.

People Me Believe Lonely Moments

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