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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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Service Story Short Long Always

I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.

Johan Lindeberg

Black Environment Always Jeans Up

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

Work My Own Explore Own Catholic

Just as black and white, when mixed, make grey, in many ways that's what it did to my self-identity: it created a murky area of who I was, a haze around how people connected with me. I was grey. And who wants to be this indifferent colour, devoid of depth and stuck in the middle? I certainly didn't.

Black And White People Me Black Grey

Controversy sells books.

Robert Gottlieb

Controversy Books Sells

So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where they cast themselves as the righteous and the other guy is the dirtbag. They waste tons of energy on it, create all kinds of darkness around themselves and the other person. It gets you nothing.

Stephen J. Cannell

Darkness People Energy You Create

Whether it is better to forget and let wounds heal or remember and learn from the past is a crucial question for all of us, wherever we are.

Romesh Gunesekera

Past Better Learn Remember Forget

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

Passion God Best Get Committed

In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.

Louis Adolphe Thiers

Politics Seriously Nothing Everything

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

Listening Think Worth You Difficult

If I couldn't be Dick Van Dyke, I wanted to be Art Carney.

Art Wanted Van Dyke Dick Van Dyke

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

Police Stand Heroes Scared Us Move

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.

Bryant H. McGill

People Reputation You Say Ability

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