John L'Heureux Quotes

12 quotes in 173 categories

• Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities.…
• Let good people sin. Give virtue to rotters.
• You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What is the line of the…
• There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."
• Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story.
• Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol.
• Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.
• Uninvited criticism is insult.
• What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a…
• A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in…
• Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste,…
• Our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen.

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