Steven Heighton quotes
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“Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them. (from Workbook)”
-- Steven HeightonSource : "Workbook: Memos and Dispatches On Writing". Book by Steven Heighton, 2011.
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“To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)”
-- Steven HeightonSource : Steven Heighton (2011). “Workbook: Memos and Dispatches On Writing”, p.28, ECW Press
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“The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.”
-- Steven HeightonSource : Steven Heighton (2010). “Afterlands”, p.322, Vintage Canada
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“Cast a spell and the small flaws don't matter. (From Workbook)”
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.14, Da Capo Press
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Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.6, Delphi Classics
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