Tawni O'Dell Quotes

Tawni O'Dell
American Novelist
Born: 1964
Author Life People Time Words Writing
Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them. Tawni O'Dell
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Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up. Tawni O'Dell
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I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do. Tawni O'Dell
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I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial. Tawni O'Dell
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My mind is constantly creating and searching, but I can't make myself put the right words on paper until I'm ready. Once I'm ready, I'm a focused, disciplined writer who will put in twelve hours a day at the computer, but I also spend a lot of time away from the computer getting to that point. Tawni O'Dell
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I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know. Tawni O'Dell
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did. Tawni O'Dell
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I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not. Tawni O'Dell
Woman Considered Like Author Whether Novelist Serious
I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad? Tawni O'Dell
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People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch. Tawni O'Dell
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America. Tawni O'Dell
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