"Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt……" — 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, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them. (from Workbook)"
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