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> [But once you publish a book, doesn’t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldn’t we just write books and print them out ourselves, and give them to specific people we felt comfortable giving them to–like gifts?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/but-once-you-publish-a-book-doesn-t-it-by-definition-become-the-realm/)

[Jonathan Evison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-evison/)

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## More by Jonathan Evison

> [Homesteading is gone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/homesteading-is-gone/)

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> [If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/if-i-walk-into-a-place-a-party-say-and-there-s-a-bookshelf-i/)

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> [I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/i-usually-write-in-my-underwear-with-a-space-heater-running-full/)

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> [I've been blessed with an optimistic disposition, I think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/i-ve-been-blessed-with-an-optimistic-disposition-i-think/)

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> [I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/i-know-i-ve-lost-my-mind-but-i-m-not-concerned-because-it-s-the-first/)

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> [“A man’s destiny is not in the eyes of others. It’s in his own. And that, my young friend, is as good as any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/a-man-s-destiny-is-not-in-the-eyes-of-others-it-s-in-his-own-and-that/)

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> [“... when it seemed at every turn that the winds of fate had blown our lives afoul, financially, emotionally, or idealistically. Look at all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/when-it-seemed-at-every-turn-that-the-winds-of-fate-had-blown-our/)

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> [“He didn't look back, the cold-blooded little prick. That's when I realized what I should have realized years ago: that there were people in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/he-didn-t-look-back-the-cold-blooded-little-prick-that-s-when-i/)

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> [Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/reading-is-at-its-best-not-an-escape-it-is-genuine-experience-a-novel/)

[Jonathan Evison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-evison/)

> [My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/my-neediness-is-not-a-hole-to-be-filled-but-something-beneath-the/)

[Jonathan Evison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-evison/)

> [As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/as-a-result-of-manifest-destiny-we-gutted-our-resources/)

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> [You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/you-have-to-find-hope-hope-is-such-a-shape-shifter-you-tend-to-look/)

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> [“I've been thinking about the cruel mathematics of my life, looking at my sums & wishing I'd shown my work.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/i-ve-been-thinking-about-the-cruel-mathematics-of-my-life-looking-at/)

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> [Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/most-everything-that-happens-to-me-in-any-significant-sense-finds-its/)

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> [“I've been thinking about all the things I might have done differently. All the choices I didn't make. All the decisions that made and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/i-ve-been-thinking-about-all-the-things-i-might-have-done-differently/)

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