--- title: "4 Jon Clinch Quotes - Famous Novelist" description: "American writer... | Jon Clinch is an American novelist. Originally from Oneida, New York, he graduated from Syracuse University and went on to teach Am..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-jon-clinch-65034.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Jon Clinch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-jon-clinch-65034.jpg) # Jon Clinch Novelist **4** quotes in **6** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Jon Clinch is a novelist. ## Quick Facts About Jon Clinch Profession Novelist ## About Jon Clinch American writer... \| Jon Clinch is an American novelist. Originally from Oneida, New York, he graduated from Syracuse University and went on to teach American literature. Formerly creative director for various advertising agencies in the Philadelphia area, he now lives in Vermont. He has written stories which have been ## Quotes by Jon Clinch > [“So you try to understand how people think, and sometimes it surprises you. People don't always see things the same way you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-clinch/so-you-try-to-understand-how-people-think-and-sometimes-it-surprises/) [Jon Clinch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-clinch/) [Coming together](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/coming-together/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b99/jon-clinch-65034_coming-together_so-you-try-to-understand-how-people-thin_135820.jpg) > [“The inscrutable outpourings bend and intermix, each one a tributary unto the others, until the whole expands ineluctably into a spiraling morass…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-clinch/the-inscrutable-outpourings-bend-and-intermix-each-one-a-tributary/) [Jon Clinch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-clinch/) [Spiraling Morass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/spiraling-morass-3041230/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8b/jon-clinch-65034_spiraling-morass_the-inscrutable-outpourings-bend-and-int_323068.jpg) > [“Under a low sun, pursued by fish and mounted by crows and veiled in a loud swarm of bluebottle flies, the body…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-clinch/under-a-low-sun-pursued-by-fish-and-mounted-by-crows-and-veiled-in-a/) [Jon Clinch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-clinch/) [Flies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/flies/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0b/jon-clinch-65034_quote_under-a-low-sun-pursued-by-fish-and-moun_2136384.jpg) > [“There's nothing else in this world the color of a school bus. They call it yellow but it's not quite yellow, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-clinch/there-s-nothing-else-in-this-world-the-color-of-a-school-bus-they/) [Jon Clinch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-clinch/) [Color](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/color/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac3/jon-clinch-65034_color_there-s-nothing-else-in-this-world-the-c_3004856.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-clinch/#itemlist", "name": "Jon Clinch Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“So you try to understand how people think, and sometimes it surprises you. People don't always see things the same way you see them. 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