there's no masking one's interests and obsessions

13th June 2017 | for Creatives | create for YOURSELF, artist in the art, novel writing, writing, artist's voice, Stewart O'Nan  |       

"I see major thematic and even dramatic similarities between all my books.  In novels, there's no masking one's interests and obsessions."

— Stewart O'Nan

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