Steven Heighton Quotes

Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.

Steven Heighton

Steven Heighton

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I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.

Manolo Blahnik
- Experience
- Bad
- Today
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler
- Life
- Experience
- Learning
Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

Federico Fellini
- Experience
- You
- Looking
Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.

Madison Smartt Bell
- People
- Good
- Writing
The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.

Warren Spector
- Experience
- Game
- Reality
There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.

Taylor Kitsch
- People
- Experience
- Nice