"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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Source : "Workbook: Memos and Dispatches On Writing". Book by Steven Heighton, 2011.

Steven Heighton

#Writing Quotes #Luck Quotes #May Quotes

“A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.”
“Sometimes its nice when people you love need you.”
“There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.”
“I've learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people.”
“Myself, I'm a pothead. It's no secret. Everyone knows that. I go on the road and forget everything else”
“That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.”
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.”
“If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did your ancestors.”

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