Philosophy does provide me a structure and a way of thinking. Religion - like the religion I grew up with, Mormonism -… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
I don't always know what's going to go on in terms of the mood of the story. Sometimes I start with the… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
Any time I put together a story collection, I don't know what it's going to look like overall - or even what… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
Julio's Day is a story of one man's life, but it's a great more than that as well. It's the story of… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
“What was the truth? he wondered. How important was it to know? And once he knew, what then?” — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
Anything can happen: anything. Or nothing. Who can say? The world, monstrous, is made that way, and in the end consumes us all. Who… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into question. Reading… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
“Curiosity is a terrible thing, he was thinking. How is it possible to stop oneself from needing to know?” — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
Philosophy does provide me a structure and a way of thinking. Religion - like the religion I grew up with, Mormonism - also provides… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a set of observable manifestations, as represented and frozen in language, that triggers a profoundly subjective and individual experience. Ultimately, this is… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
One of the primary differences for me between fiction and poetry is that fiction uses every sort of tool that poetry does but hides… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at once smart… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
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