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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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