Writing Quotes by Leigh Newman

Leigh Newman

I didn’t write the memoir with any sort of intention of feeling better. I wrote the memoir because I had a weird need to write a good story. But once I was done, I did feel better about myself. Not better, just calmer. Because a tremendous onus had been lifted off my day-to-day.

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Leigh Newman

I made myself a rule: write out of love. And when you love somebody, you have to tell the truth about who they are – not the cute “truth” in your head of who they are, the one where you did everything right and they did everything wrong.

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Leigh Newman

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

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Leigh Newman

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

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Leigh Newman

My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that’s how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to compress for speed.

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Leigh Newman

The minute I landed back in Alaska, it was back to hip boots and fish guts. This cultural flipping wasn’t easy – especially on top of the post-divorce fighting that was still going on between my parents. But this is why you don’t write a memoir at age fourteen.

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Writing Quotes by Leigh Newman

I didn’t write the memoir with any sort of intention of feeling better. I wrote the memoir because I had a weird need to write a good story. But once I was done, I did feel better about myself. Not better, just calmer. Because a tremendous onus had been lifted off my day-to-day.

I made myself a rule: write out of love. And when you love somebody, you have to tell the truth about who they are – not the cute “truth” in your head of who they are, the one where you did everything right and they did everything wrong.

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.

My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that’s how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to compress for speed.

The minute I landed back in Alaska, it was back to hip boots and fish guts. This cultural flipping wasn’t easy – especially on top of the post-divorce fighting that was still going on between my parents. But this is why you don’t write a memoir at age fourteen.

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