John L'Heureux famous quotes

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

#Darkness #Selfless #Goes On

Our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen.
-- John L'Heureux

#Salvation #Form #Chosen

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 #Thinking #Fiction

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 #Discovery #Expression

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

#Interesting #Personality #Anecdotes

Let good people sin. Give virtue to rotters.
-- John L'Heureux

#Letting Go #People #Giving

Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol.
-- John L'Heureux

#Character #Interesting #Alcohol

Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.
-- John L'Heureux

#Moving #Space #Doe

Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story.
-- John L'Heureux

#Growth #Stories #Crafts

There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."
-- John L'Heureux

#Jumping #Fiction #Crafts

Uninvited criticism is insult.
-- John L'Heureux

#Editors #Criticism #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 wounded animal.
-- John L'Heureux

#Animal #Sound #Strange