The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love? — Stewart O'Nan Love Copy Share Image
It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading… — Stewart O'Nan Bears Copy Share Image
You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a… — Stewart O'Nan Acceptance Copy Share Image
I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the… — Stewart O'Nan Always Copy Share Image
Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line. — Stewart O'Nan Car Copy Share Image
“He could no longer be that Ed Larsen, but, through a lack of imagination or just sheer exhaustion, he couldn't come up… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
“They should." "Should be like a wood bee," she said. It was a private joke, a mocking appreciation of the slipperiness of… — Stewart O'Nan Catchphrases Copy Share Image
I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure… — Stewart O'Nan Any Copy Share Image
“Come then, come with us, out into the night. Come now, America the lovesick, America the timid, the blessed, the educated, come… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
“Often, as she leafed through the sticky, plastic-coated pages, spotting herself with a frizzy perm or wearing a loud, printed blouse, she… — Stewart O'Nan Different person Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view. — Stewart O'Nan Different Copy Share Image
The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping. — Stewart O'Nan Hardest Copy Share Image
I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write… — Stewart O'Nan Being Copy Share Image
“It was the ultimate cautionary tale, the moral being Don't fall, as if they were made of glass. In a sense they… — Stewart O'Nan Accidents Copy Share Image
“She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It would… — Stewart O'Nan Challenge Copy Share Image
“No one told her Trader Joe's sold Advent calendars for cats. She found out on her own, rolling her card down the… — Stewart O'Nan Advent Copy Share Image
Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always… — Stewart O'Nan Always Copy Share Image
I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its… — Stewart O'Nan Childhood Copy Share Image
“For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good… — Stewart O'Nan Aging Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. — Stewart O'Nan Character Copy Share Image
No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book. — Stewart O'Nan Book Copy Share Image
To be lost and forgotten-to be abandoned-is a shared and terrible fear, just as our fondest hope, as we grow older, is… — Stewart O'Nan Abandoned Copy Share Image
The spirit of Jane Eyre looms over Once Upon a Day. Lisa Tucker keeps the plot of this gothic novel bubbling with… — Stewart O'Nan Family Copy Share Image
