John L'Heureux Professions : Poet Born : October 26, 1934 Browse All Authors Top 12 quotes by John L'Heureux 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, all hopeless, and we can ... well ... go on. John L'Heureux selfless darkness goes-on Our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen. John L'Heureux chosen salvation form Let good people sin. Give virtue to rotters. John L'Heureux letting-go giving people 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 story that leads us to a point where we see or intuit something we haven't before? John L'Heureux anecdotes personality interesting 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. John L'Heureux reality fiction thinking 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. A scream is not a discovery. John L'Heureux real expression discovery Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol. John L'Heureux alcohol character interesting Uninvited criticism is insult. John L'Heureux insult editors criticism 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 wounded animal. John L'Heureux strange sound animal Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story. John L'Heureux crafts growth stories There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now." John L'Heureux crafts jumping fiction Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space. John L'Heureux space doe moving Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
