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Stewart O'Nan Famous Quotes & Sayings

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Stewart O'Nan quotes: You can't run from your roots.

You can't run from your roots.

Stewart O'Nan quotes: Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them.

Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them.

Stewart O'Nan quotes: I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus.

I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus.

Stewart O'Nan quotes: The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?

The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?

Stewart O'Nan quotes: The spirit of Jane Eyre looms over Once Upon a Day. Lisa Tucker keeps the plot of this gothic novel bubbling with tons of juicy family secrets.

The spirit of Jane Eyre looms over Once Upon a Day. Lisa Tucker keeps the plot of this gothic novel bubbling with tons of juicy family secrets.

Stewart O'Nan quotes: When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world.

When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world.

Stewart O'Nan quotes: All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.

All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.

Stewart O'Nan quotes: If there is an audience out there for me, I want them to be surprised when the next book comes out.

If there is an audience out there for me, I want them to be surprised when the next book comes out.

Stewart O'Nan quotes: Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.

Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.

Stewart O'Nan quotes: 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.

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.

Stewart O'Nan quotes: As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

Stewart O'Nan quotes: What man wanted a woman without fire, and vice-versa?

What man wanted a woman without fire, and vice-versa?

Stewart O'Nan quotes: Why was he drawn to complicated women, or were all womenall people, finallycomplicated?

Why was he drawn to complicated women, or were all women
all people, finally
complicated?

Stewart O'Nan quotes: Somewhere in this latest humiliation there was a lesson in self-reliance. He'd failed so completely that he'd become his own man again.

Somewhere in this latest humiliation there was a lesson in self-reliance. He'd failed so completely that he'd become his own man again.

Stewart O'Nan quotes: I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the reader.

I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the reader.

Stewart O'Nan quotes: The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?

The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?

Stewart O'Nan quotes: No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

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

Stewart O'Nan quotes: The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.

The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.

Stewart O'Nan quotes: I've always been a big reader.

I've always been a big reader.