"All stories teach us something, and promise us……" — Stewart O'Nan
"All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact."
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14 Quotes by Stewart O'Nan
Stewart O'Nan has 14 quotes on this site.
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Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' — which I think is true.…
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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…
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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…
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The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged…
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No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.
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