Heywood Broun

We are under no delusions as to the innate goodness even of very small children. They are bad a great deal of the time, but before it has been knocked out of them, they see no limit to the potentialities of the human will. Theirs is the faith to move mountains, because they do not yet know the fearful heft of them.

American Journalist

Lynn Nottage

The person whose work introduced me to the craft was Lorraine Hansberry. The person who taught me to love the craft was Tennessee Williams. The person who really taught me the power of the craft was August Wilson, and the person who taught me the political heft of the craft was Arthur Miller.

American Playwright

Robin Sloan

When we talk about novels, we don't often talk about imagination. Why not? Does it seem too first grade? In reviews, you read about limpid prose, about the faithful reproduction of consciousness, about moral heft, but rarely about the power of pure, unadulterated imagination.

American Author

Richard K. Morgan

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.

English Author

Jesse Kellerman

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.

American Novelist

Laura van den Berg

We write in a culture that favors the heft of the novel. Better still if the novel in question is large enough to be wielded interchangeably as a doorstop and a weapon.

American Writer

Eugene Kennedy

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.

American Psychologist

William Safire

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

Simon Armitage

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

British Poet

Used to express unexpected heaviness of objects, not generally for light items.

Surprising Weight

Can suggest an object's size gives it a strong, noticeable presence.

Physical Presence

Used metaphorically to describe non-physical weight like authority or influence.

Metaphorical Use

Refers to a person's or object's capacity to make a significant impact in social contexts.

Social Impact

Indicates the action of lifting something as a way to test physical strength or capacity.

Evaluating Strength

Implies assessing an object's weight by lifting, not by using scales.

Assessing by Lifting

Suggests making a quick, instinctive judgment about weight without precise measurements.

Immediate Judgment

 We just jam a whole bunch of facts down their throats over here and then they puke it up on an exam over here and everybody goes home with no added intellectual heft whatsoever. This can't possibly continue to go on. So what do we do? Well the geneticists, I have to say, have an interesting maxim they live by.

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 Her body has a heft that makes the action believable, and the viscous streams of blood soaking the sheets are highly naturalistic. The blood spraying from the severed artery in Caravaggio’s looks stilted and artificial by comparison.

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Heft