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 have to learn how to take care of themselves. They have trouble hinging their lives with anybody else.
Leigh NewmanYou see things really different when your father is so intimately, so indisputably in charge of your continued existence on the planet.
Leigh NewmanIt's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.
Leigh NewmanI 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.
Leigh Newman