Jonathan Evison Quotes

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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 writer…
• 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…
• It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.
• 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 then,…
• My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.
• The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast of delightfully quirky…
• Fobbit is fast, razor sharp, and seven kinds of hilarious. Thank you, Mr. Abrams, for the much needed salve--it feels good to finally laugh about…
• We are born haunted, he said, his voice weak, but still clear. Haunted by our fathers and mothers and daughters, and by people we don't…
• Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?
• People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the…
• Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or…
• 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 good.
• I'll never stop caring. But the thing about caring is, it's inconvenient. Sometimes you've got to give when it makes no sense to at all.…
• I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.
• So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens.
• Homesteading is gone.
• My parents divorced after 25 years of marriage.
• There are holes in our lives that can never be filled - not really, not ever.
• I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.
• I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.

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