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Stewart O'Nan has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not…
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All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.
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The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.
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I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its…
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The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In…
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To be lost and forgotten-to be abandoned-is a shared and terrible fear, just as our fondest hope, as we grow older, is…
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The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?
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You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a…
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As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.
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If there is an audience out there for me, I want them to be surprised when the next book comes out.
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The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it…
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Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut…
— Aristotle
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He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is…
— Watchman Nee
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When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's…
— Edward Ruscha
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I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses…
— David Hockney
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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by…
— Karl Marx
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To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In…
— Stewart O'Nan
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I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.
— Jasper Fforde
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