Boredom is the laboratory where new enthusiasms prepare themselves,

Steven Heighton


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The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

Steven Heighton

Stichwörter: history literature



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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)

Steven Heighton

Stichwörter: reading obsession advice-for-writers



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Love . . . requires that you learn to read the lover in her own language, not translate her into yours.

Steven Heighton


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Cast a spell and the small flaws don't matter. (From Workbook)

Steven Heighton

Stichwörter: advice-for-writers



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The dreamtime of creative work is a turnstile to eternity. (from Workbok)

Steven Heighton

Stichwörter: creativity advice-to-writers



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To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)

Steven Heighton

Stichwörter: criticism advice-for-writers



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Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but necessary semester, free of tuition. (from Workbook)

Steven Heighton

Stichwörter: education failure advice-for-writers



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