"Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a……" — Stewart O'Nan
"Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' — which I think is true. I just started writing and made that jump from reader to writer and learned how hard it was, but also how much fun it was — losing myself in these imaginary worlds."
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14 Quotes by Stewart O'Nan
Stewart O'Nan has 14 quotes on this site.
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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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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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More Bellow Quotes
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one of 14 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and…
— Sufjan Stevens
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In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans,…
— Virginia Woolf
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Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
— Leslie Fiedler
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Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up…
— Philip Guston
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He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
— Charles Peguy
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There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it,…
— Frank McCourt
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I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself…
— Cynthia Ozick
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Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I…
— Cynthia Ozick
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I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a…
— George Grosz
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The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
— Leslie Fiedler
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Theres a time for us all, some just shorten their length. Death shall come, the dead shall go, bury me…
— Racheal Deanna Holt
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Action trumps depression. Confronted with a situation in which our feelings of powerlessness are more than just feelings, we choose…
— Unknown Author
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