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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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 4, 1961

Topics

Character Writing World Mask Walking

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

Jerry Pournelle

Lunch Advice You Go Point Take

We have found that the Ministry of Defence was slow in responding to the threat of improvised explosive devices and that delays in providing adequate medium-weight protected patrol vehicles should not have been tolerated.

Slow Been Found Devices Ministry

Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for this country. They show that the U.K. could be a prime provider of imaginative riches and intellectual adventure, which I think are the two great prizes of the 21st century.

Future Science Great Adventure Think

Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.

Reading You Digital Content Empty

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

Science School College Computers

You've got to move us to these technologies that allow us to get to the clean-energy source. If we can't work to reduce the cost, you're not going to see them implemented unless there is a path of unlimited subsidies, and that's not doable, either. We can kick-start the research process, but we have to do that from a position of economic strength.

Work Strength Path Research Process

Every single director stops at the moment he thinks he has the shot. Sometimes, directors shoot an establishing shot where everything is in the shot. He's going to use this at the beginning and the end.

Moment Beginning End Sometimes Going

I'm not Blockbuster Boy.

Boy Blockbuster

It is our interpretation of the past, our limiting beliefs, and our undigested pain that stop us from being able to move forward with clear direction.

Past Pain Forward Direction Stop Us

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

New York End Serious New Line Seem

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

William Graham Sumner

Life Business Man Pay Forgotten He

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