"If there is an audience out there for……" — Stewart O'Nan
"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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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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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…
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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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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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I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out…
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
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You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering…
— Paul Auster
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I…
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I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's…
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You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into…
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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact,…
— Lucille Ball
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I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap…
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I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my…
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