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I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.

I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.

Leslie Jamison
Drunk, Chocolate, Melting
Leslie Jamison (2010). “The Gin Closet”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

We don't want to be wounds ("No, you're the wound!") but we should be allowed to have them, to speak about having them, to be something more than just another girl who has one. We should be able to do these things without failing the feminism of our mothers, and we should be able to represent women who hurt without walking backward into a voyeuristic rehashing of the old cultural models.

Leslie Jamison
Girl, Mother, Hurt
Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.174, Granta Books

I like thinking of the writer as a kind of curator; the collection as curiosity cabinet - in a non-demeaning, non-objectifying sense - but an array, a set of offerings.

Leslie Jamison
Thinking, Offering, Curiosity
Source: therumpus.net

After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or a novel, I find that when it's still fresh in my mind I'm either thoroughly sick of its flaws or completely blind to them. Either way, I'm unable to make substantive edits of any value.

Leslie Jamison
Sick, Mind, Finishing

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.

Leslie Jamison
Reading, Editors, People

We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.

Leslie Jamison
Thinking, Order, Should Have
Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.100, Granta Books

I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.

Leslie Jamison
Teacher, Lucky, Way

Sometimes I do feel exposed. I have this kind of theory about different channels or levels of relaying experience - when I tell someone, one on one, in a personal context, about something that's happened to me - that has a very different valence, a different charge, than when/if I've said it in a public forum.

Leslie Jamison
Different, Levels, Kind
Source: therumpus.net

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