Quotes About Heft

#1. I remember my father banging away on an IBM Selectric in the garage. He wrote his first novels on that machine. I remember its pebbly surface, its cold heft. It made its mark, literally and violently.

Jesse Kellerman

#2. She wanted a life not full of things, but stories, so many stories that, if they'd had weight and heft, they wouldn't have fit into a thousand suitcases.

Sarah Addison Allen

#3. For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.

Richard K. Morgan

#4. The idea of Cable as a man out to protect his daughter by any means necessary gives the character an emotional heft and underlines everything he does. It's richly fulfilling.

Tom Brevoort

#5. [The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).

Tod Papageorge

#6. I pushed my hand into the open slot of the maker and closed my fingers around the sculpted handle of the energy-pistol. The newly minted weapon had the peculiar heft of something crammed with intricate machinery at abnormal densities.

Alastair Reynolds

#7. You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

John Updike

#8. He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it and make do.

Gary D. Schmidt

#9. Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.

Paul Auster

#10. An attitude will give you heft.

Carl Reiner

#11. People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

Simon Armitage

#12. Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.

Eugene Kennedy

#13. Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit to give heft to its slither, it is gloriously onomatopoetic.

Jan Morris

#14. The Brain is just the weight of God
For
Heft them
Pound for Pound
And they will differ
if they do
As Syllable from Sound

Emily Dickinson

#15. Most Americans said teaching was a hard and important job, but many of them, including teachers and teaching professors, didn't seem to believe it required serious intellectual heft.

Amanda Ripley

#16. I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

Matt Stone

#17. The heft of a life in the hands grows both lighter and weightier. Over time, my life has become more saturated with its shape and made-ness, while my poems have become more and more free. The first word of every poem might be "Yes." The next words: "And then."

Jane Hirshfield

#18. The books in the tote bag banged against her side as she pushed her bike, bringing her back to the present. The weight of the books grounded her, giving her careening emotions purchase with their heft and substance.

Jenn McKinlay

#19. Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for me, one of the highest compliments you can pay a novel is to say that it has the rich texture and eloquent detail of a good story collection.

Gary Krist

#20. The drive to make everything lightweight is depriving us of the the deep reassurance of heft.

Michael Foley

#21. Though it is the hardest thing, to work out one's weight and heft in the world, to whittle down all that I am and give it a value.

Anna Funder

#22. These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.

Terry Pratchett

#23. A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

William Safire

#24. Today she wore a navy blue suit that deftly minimized a slight tendency to heft.

Tim Farrington

#25. Just pull the fucking trigger on me now, please - Shane

Christine Zolendz

#26. For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

Gary Hamel

#27. You don't need to push your beliefs onto other people!

Hilary Duff

#28. I am the alpha. You follow." His extraordinary eyes held Andromeda's. "Not for always. For this."
Andromeda was oddly pleased that he'd clarified his statement. "Until we escape," she agreed

Nalini Singh

#29. Now I am going back
And I have ripped my hand
From your hand as I said I would
And I have made it this far ...

Anne Sexton