Steven Heighton Quotes

• To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)

  Steven Heighton

  Self Esteem, Heart, Stranger

  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 Heighton

  Sides, Idiot, Willingness

  Steven Heighton (2010). “Afterlands”, p.322, Vintage Canada

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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.

  Steven Heighton

  Writing, Luck, May

  "Workbook: Memos and Dispatches On Writing". Book by Steven Heighton, 2011.

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• Cast a spell and the small flaws don't matter. (From Workbook)

  Steven Heighton

  Matter, Flaws, Casts

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• It's no sin to tell a good story.

  Steven Heighton

  Stories, Sin, Good Story

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