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> [Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' — which I think is true. I just started writing and made that jump from reader to writer and learned how hard it was, but also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-o-nan/saul-bellow-once-said-a-writer-is-a-reader-who-has-moved-to-emulation/)

[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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