Steven Heighton
Steven Heighton
Steven Heighton is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and poet. He is the author of thirteen books, including three short story collections, three novels and five poetry collections. His most recent book, the short story collection The Dead Are More Visible, was published in 2012...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 August 1961
CountryCanada
Steven Heighton quotes about
avoid emerging experience lyrical poets tried virtual visceral
Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.
awakened books draw lives readers send travel trying
I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way.
maybe
I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about it.'
despise larger supportive writ
I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of nationalism I despise as destructive and infantile is really just tribalism writ large.
essays increasing life talked
I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life.
self-esteem heart stranger
To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)
sides idiot willingness
The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.
stories sin good-story
It's no sin to tell a good story.