"A short story is a writer's way of……" — John L'Heureux
"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 the interest of a larger truth."
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12 Quotes by John L'Heureux
John L'Heureux has 12 quotes on this site.
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Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got…
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Let good people sin. Give virtue to rotters.
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You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What…
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There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."
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Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story.
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Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol.
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Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.
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Uninvited criticism is insult.
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What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never…
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Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that…
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Our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen.
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More Accuracy Quotes
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All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
— Richard Avedon
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the…
— Charles Babbage
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Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with…
— Martha Beck
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the…
— Saul Bellow
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
— Samuel Butler
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with…
— John Dewey
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
— Wyatt Earp
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The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid…
— Harry Vardon
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Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children…
— Robin Sharma
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Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance…
— Charles Babbage
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