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.

Let good people sin. Give virtue to rotters.

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.

There’s something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, “It’s me, moi, jumping in now.”

Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.

Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol.