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> [Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-o-nan/getting-inside-your-character-s-head-and-letting-the-reader-see-the/)

[Stewart O'Nan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-o-nan/)

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## More by Stewart O'Nan

> [The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-o-nan/the-happiest-she-d-ever-been-was-with-him-and-the-saddest-was-that/)

[Stewart O'Nan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-o-nan/)

> [It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading into one's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-o-nan/it-is-not-brilliance-or-facility-that-is-necessary-but-the/)

[Stewart O'Nan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-o-nan/)

> [You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-o-nan/you-couldn-t-relive-your-life-skipping-the-awful-parts-without-losing/)

[Stewart O'Nan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-o-nan/)

> [I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world, hoping…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-o-nan/i-always-squirm-when-i-read-what-s-called-creative-nonfiction-and-the/)

[Stewart O'Nan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-o-nan/)

> [Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-o-nan/local-teenagers-killed-in-a-car-crash-is-a-suburban-legend-a-stock/)

[Stewart O'Nan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-o-nan/)

> [“He could no longer be that Ed Larsen, but, through a lack of imagination or just sheer exhaustion, he couldn't come up with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-o-nan/he-could-no-longer-be-that-ed-larsen-but-through-a-lack-of/)

[Stewart O'Nan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-o-nan/)

> [“They should." "Should be like a wood bee," she said. It was a private joke, a mocking appreciation of the slipperiness of even the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-o-nan/they-should-should-be-like-a-wood-bee-she-said-it-was-a-private-joke/)

[Stewart O'Nan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-o-nan/)

> [I've always been a big reader.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-o-nan/i-ve-always-been-a-big-reader/)

[Stewart O'Nan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-o-nan/)

> [I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-o-nan/i-m-not-sure-the-risks-i-take-are-any-different-from-what-other/)

[Stewart O'Nan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-o-nan/)

> [“Come then, come with us, out into the night. Come now, America the lovesick, America the timid, the blessed, the educated, come stalk the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-o-nan/come-then-come-with-us-out-into-the-night-come-now-america-the/)

[Stewart O'Nan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-o-nan/)

> [“Often, as she leafed through the sticky, plastic-coated pages, spotting herself with a frizzy perm or wearing a loud, printed blouse, she was struck…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-o-nan/often-as-she-leafed-through-the-sticky-plastic-coated-pages-spotting/)

[Stewart O'Nan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-o-nan/)

> [As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-o-nan/as-a-fiction-writer-my-favorite-tools-are-my-imagination-and-the/)

[Stewart O'Nan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-o-nan/)

> [You can't run from your roots.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-o-nan/you-can-t-run-from-your-roots/)

[Stewart O'Nan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-o-nan/)

> [The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-o-nan/the-two-hardest-things-about-writing-are-starting-and-not-stopping/)

[Stewart O'Nan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-o-nan/)

> [I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-o-nan/i-like-the-idea-of-being-a-working-writer-not-of-saying-that-it-s/)

[Stewart O'Nan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-o-nan/)

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