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> [“An Elegy, Years After Sarah” So her ceiling a map of stars. First time we made love late afternoon late winter, and after she slept how her room fogged up with dusk and paper stars she’d stuck up there in…](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/)

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## 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/)

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