"No one writes a great book every time……" — Stewart O'Nan

"No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book."

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14 Quotes by Stewart O'Nan

Stewart O'Nan has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' — which I think is true.…
When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When…
All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.
The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.
I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane…
The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried…
To be lost and forgotten-to be abandoned-is a shared and terrible fear, just as our fondest hope, as we grow…
The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?
You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it…
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.
If there is an audience out there for me, I want them to be surprised when the next book comes…
The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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