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> [I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of nationalism I despise as destructive and infantile is really just tribalism writ large.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-heighton/i-m-supportive-of-practical-nationalism-like-the-kind-we-need-in/)

[Steven Heighton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-heighton/)

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> [Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-heighton/lyrical-poets-have-to-be-in-touch-with-visceral-experience-i-ve/)

[Steven Heighton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-heighton/)

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## Other authors on Avoid

## More by Steven Heighton

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-heighton/interest-is-never-enough-if-it-doesn-t-haunt-you-you-ll-never-write/)

[Steven Heighton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-heighton/)

> [I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-heighton/i-m-supportive-of-practical-nationalism-like-the-kind-we-need-in/)

[Steven Heighton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-heighton/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-heighton/interest-is-never-enough-if-it-doesn-t-haunt-you-you-ll-never-write-2/)

[Steven Heighton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-heighton/)

> [Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-heighton/lyrical-poets-have-to-be-in-touch-with-visceral-experience-i-ve/)

[Steven Heighton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-heighton/)

> [The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-heighton/the-idiot-willingness-to-choose-sides-is-what-feeds-the-abattoir-of/)

[Steven Heighton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-heighton/)

> [To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-heighton/to-listen-to-critics-pro-or-con-and-take-their-words-to-heart-is-to/)

[Steven Heighton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-heighton/)

> [“An Elegy, Years After Sarah” So her ceiling a map of stars. First time we made love late afternoon late winter, and after she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-heighton/an-elegy-years-after-sarah-so-her-ceiling-a-map-of-stars-first-time/)

[Steven Heighton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-heighton/)

> [Cast a spell and the small flaws don't matter. (From Workbook)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-heighton/cast-a-spell-and-the-small-flaws-don-t-matter-from-workbook/)

[Steven Heighton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-heighton/)

> [I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-heighton/i-used-to-be-more-of-a-purist-about-literature-i-thought-if-it-s-a/)

[Steven Heighton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-heighton/)

> [“Love . . . requires that you learn to read the lover in her own language, not translate her into yours.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-heighton/love-requires-that-you-learn-to-read-the-lover-in-her-own-language/)

[Steven Heighton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-heighton/)

> [I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-heighton/i-ve-been-a-traveller-but-i-don-t-travel-so-much-now-i-m-trying-to-do/)

[Steven Heighton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-heighton/)

> [It's no sin to tell a good story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-heighton/it-s-no-sin-to-tell-a-good-story/)

[Steven Heighton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-heighton/)

> [“Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but necessary semester, free of tuition.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-heighton/let-failure-be-your-workshop-see-it-for-what-is-is-the-world-walking/)

[Steven Heighton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-heighton/)

> [I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-heighton/i-had-a-book-of-essays-out-in-1997-in-which-i-talked-about-the/)

[Steven Heighton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-heighton/)

> [“Boredom is the laboratory where new enthusiasms prepare themselves,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-heighton/boredom-is-the-laboratory-where-new-enthusiasms-prepare-themselves/)

[Steven Heighton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-heighton/)

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