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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)

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

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

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.

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

Steven Heighton
Matter, Flaws, Casts

It's no sin to tell a good story.

Steven Heighton
Stories, Sin, Good Story

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