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

- John L'Heureux

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

- John L'Heureux

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 realit…

- John L'Heureux

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…

- John L'Heureux

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

- John L'Heureux

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 hopele…

- John L'Heureux

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

- John L'Heureux

Let good people sin. Give virtue to rotters.

- John L'Heureux

Uninvited criticism is insult.

- John L'Heureux