Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian writer Steven Heighton.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Steven Heighton was a Canadian fiction writer, poet, and singer-songwriter. He is the author of eighteen books, including three short story collections, four novels, and seven poetry collections. His last work was Selected Poems 1983-2020 and an album, The Devil's Share.
Cast a spell and the small flaws don't matter. (From Workbook)
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.
It's no sin to tell a good story.
To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)
The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.