15 Quotes by John L'Heureux

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.

Heartbreak comes just when you think nothing worse can happen.

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.

A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same.

on the other hand, who would be a more dedicated gay-basher than a gay school board member? look at congress.

Uninvited criticism is insult.

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?

Using language like jungle growth isn’t the solution to telling a story.

Our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen.