"The story is always in service to the……" — Stewart O'Nan
"The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be."
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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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If there is an audience out there for me, I want them to be surprised when the next book comes…
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No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.
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More Characters Quotes
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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about…
— J. J. Abrams
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Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
— Darren Aronofsky
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You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
— Victoria Abril
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Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These…
— Chinua Achebe
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I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political…
— Margaret Atwood
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
— Margaret Atwood
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search…
— Paul Auster
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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than…
— Richard Bach
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I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.
— Kevin Bacon
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I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it…
— Amy Adams
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I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters.
— Christian Bale
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