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

- Stewart O'Nan

Car, Plot, Suburban, Legend

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

- Stewart O'Nan

Want, Audience, Next, Surprised

Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I always loved space travel.

- Stewart O'Nan

Space, Flight, Always, Space Travel

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.

- Stewart O'Nan

Some, Always, Read, Nonfiction

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

- Stewart O'Nan

Book, Good Book, Even, Writes

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

- Stewart O'Nan

Fiction, Fiction Writer, Peculiar

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

- Stewart O'Nan

Character, World, Through, Mask

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

Always, Needs, Characters, Neat

My main question that I ask of my characters is, 'What does it feel like to be you? And how do you get through the day? Where do you find the hope and faith to endure getting through the days, and what are your days like?'

- Stewart O'Nan

Question, Through, Like, Endure

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

Pleasure, Other, Sure, Risks

You can't run from your roots.

- Stewart O'Nan

Run, You, Your, Roots

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