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Leslie Jamison Quotes

Commonality doesn’t inoculate against hurt Picture Quote #1

Bolivian women sewed their lips shut for days. They threaded needles through their skin to stop their speech, to show what good speaking had done them Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It’s one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn’t admit to yourself that it did Picture Quote #1

When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft Picture Quote #1

The ‘here’ of Watts is pastel houses with window gratings in curly patterns. ‘Here’ is yard sales with bins full of stuffed animals and used water guns. Here is Crips turf Picture Quote #1

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The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or ‘poorism’ - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to be guided through the favelas of Brazil and the shantytowns of South Africa. The recently opened Los Angeles Gang Tour carries visitors through battle-scarred territories of urban violence and deprivation Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries Picture Quote #1

Whatever we can’t hold, we hang on a hook that will hold it Picture Quote #1

Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing Picture Quote #1

I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to seek, or to supply: an empathy that rearticulates more clearly what it’s shown Picture Quote #1

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Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we’ll find we’re nothing but banal Picture Quote #1

Imagining someone else’s pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Whenever I’ve been stuck on a project, it’s always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It’s a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep bleeding, but find some love in the blood Picture Quote #1

When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft Picture Quote #1

I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions Picture Quote #1

Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see Picture Quote #1

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Commonality doesn’t inoculate against hurt (Leslie Jamison Quotes) Bolivian women sewed their lips shut for days. They threaded needles through their skin to stop their speech, to show what good speaking had done them. (Leslie Jamison Quotes) 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 Quotes) It’s one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn’t admit to yourself that it did. (Leslie Jamison Quotes) When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft. (Leslie Jamison Quotes) The ‘here’ of Watts is pastel houses with window gratings in curly patterns. ‘Here’ is yard sales with bins full of stuffed animals and used water guns. Here is Crips turf. (Leslie Jamison Quotes) The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or ‘poorism’ - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to be guided through the favelas of Brazil and the shantytowns of South Africa. The recently opened Los Angeles Gang Tour carries visitors through battle-scarred territories of urban violence and deprivation (Leslie Jamison Quotes) 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 Quotes) No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries (Leslie Jamison Quotes) Whatever we can’t hold, we hang on a hook that will hold it (Leslie Jamison Quotes) Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing (Leslie Jamison Quotes) I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to seek, or to supply: an empathy that rearticulates more clearly what it’s shown (Leslie Jamison Quotes) Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we’ll find we’re nothing but banal (Leslie Jamison Quotes) Imagining someone else’s pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it (Leslie Jamison Quotes) 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 Quotes) Whenever I’ve been stuck on a project, it’s always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It’s a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel (Leslie Jamison Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Leslie Jamison Quotes) 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 Quotes) The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep bleeding, but find some love in the blood (Leslie Jamison Quotes) When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft (Leslie Jamison Quotes) I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions (Leslie Jamison Quotes) Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see (Leslie Jamison Quotes)