I would hit a scene about my mother screaming at me during her breakdown, drunk or using pills, and she'd turn into a monster. Which she wasn't. She was a human: somebody who loved me and somebody with a problem.
While you can't keep your heart from getting broken, you can stop breaking your own heart...once you realize the difference between what you can cont… - Leigh Newman
While you can't keep your heart from getting broken, you can stop breaking your own heart...once you realize the difference between what you can cont…
- 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 hea… - 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 hea…
After the age of seven, I began living between my dad in Alaska and my mother in Baltimore. Every three or four months, I would fly the 5,000 miles b… - Leigh Newman
After the age of seven, I began living between my dad in Alaska and my mother in Baltimore. Every three or four months, I would fly the 5,000 miles b…
The most reliable path to glory is base brute effort. - Leigh Newman
The most reliable path to glory is base brute effort.
Most dreams are also part reality (otherwise we wouldn’t believe them), and reality happens to be a condition that gives you plenty of chances throug… - Leigh Newman
Most dreams are also part reality (otherwise we wouldn’t believe them), and reality happens to be a condition that gives you plenty of chances throug…
I've managed to create intimacy with people I know, and people that I don't know. The longer things stay inside of us, the more we think they are bla… - Leigh Newman
I've managed to create intimacy with people I know, and people that I don't know. The longer things stay inside of us, the more we think they are bla…
There are still things out there in the universe to contemplate and spend our lives chasing. - Leigh Newman
There are still things out there in the universe to contemplate and spend our lives chasing.
I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people who grow really early and ha… - Leigh Newman
I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people who grow really early and ha…
It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction. - Leigh Newman
It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.
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