John L'Heureux quotes
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“Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can ... well ... go on.”
-- John L'HeureuxSource : John L'Heureux (2007). “The Shrine at Altamira”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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“Our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen.”
-- John L'HeureuxSource : John L'Heureux (1992). “The shrine at Altamira”, Viking Pr
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“A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.”
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“Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.”
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“You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What is the line of the story that leads us to a point where we see or intuit something we haven't before?”
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“Let good people sin. Give virtue to rotters.”
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“Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol.”
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“Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.”
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“Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story.”
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“There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."”
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“What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a wounded animal.”
-- John L'HeureuxSource : John L'Heureux (2002). “An Honorable Profession”, p.17, Grove Press
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