Writer Quotes by Stewart O'Nan

The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Stewart O'Nan

Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.

— 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…

— 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…

— Stewart O'Nan

I've always been a big reader.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Stewart O'Nan

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

— Stewart O'Nan

You can't run from your roots.

— Stewart O'Nan

The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.

— 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.

— Stewart O'Nan