One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Bio: Leigh Newman is an American writer and editor. Her memoir about Alaska, Still Points North was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard First Book Prize.
