Stewart O'Nan
Stewart O'Nan
Stewart O'Nanis an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 February 1961
CountryUnited States of America
Stewart O'Nan quotes about
since writers
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.
favorite imagination offered peculiar points
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.
hoping writer
I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world, hoping some of it will stick.
love acceptance world
You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.
determination opportunity dull
It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading into one's own bad prose again, and one more time, and then once again, with the utmost concentration and taste, looking for opportunities to mine deeper.
heart might way
To be lost and forgotten-to be abandoned-is a shared and terrible fear, just as our fondest hope, as we grow older, is that we might leave some parts of us behind in the hearts of those we love and in that way live on.
love tests tests-of-love
The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?
promise legends facts
All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.