Steven Heighton Quotes

Steven Heighton — Canadian Novelist born on August 14, 1961,

Steven Heighton is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and poet. He is the author of ten books, including two short story collections, three novels and five poetry collections. His most recent novel, Every Lost Country, was published in 2010... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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

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.'

It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.