Quote by Brian Evenson Download Open image ““He found the slot that people thought best suited him and he crammed himself into it. He grew up.”” — Brian Evenson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“He believed that kids who’d been slammed around needed to stick together, from start to finish. And he spotted others of his kind so… — S.E. Jakes Copy Share Image
“Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“When we were growing up, he was very critical. I was told things on a daily basis, like I was dumb and lazy.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People grew. They changed, and he suddenly realized that they could change together or grow apart and it was all their decision.” — Sophie Oak Copy Share Image
“Growing up wasn't so bad, as long as you did it with the right person.” — Monica Alexander Copy Share Image
“He needed to remember what he was really made of and return to his true nature. In” — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“It had been a marvelous childhood. Damn near perfect. If he was not leading the life he'd anticipated, if he sometimes lay in bed… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...” — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
“It didn’t matter who he might have been. That was not who he was now. He created himself each day and slowly built his… — Ginn Hale Copy Share Image
“We grew up, he thought. We didn’t think it would happen, not then, not to us. But it did, and if I go in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He didn’t come into my life gradually or delicately. He swept in like a wildfire, consuming every single thought and word and thing until… — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
“He thought how silly it was that he believed in something so arbitrary. He foolishly believed he had a purpose, that he was destined… — Kris Noel 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 belief more complex and more textured, more real. Good writing unsettles, destroys both the author and the reader. From my perspective, there always has to be a tension between the writer and the monolithic elements of… — Brian Evenson Copy Share
“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 the kind of productive dilemma that can allow fiction to get to places that other media does not. Fiction is exceptionally good at providing models for consciousness, and at putting readers in a position to take… — Brian Evenson Copy Share
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 and slyly unsettling. It is expert at creating a quietly building sense of dread while claiming to do something as straightforward as describe lost films—like those conversations you have in which you realize only too late… — Brian Evenson Copy Share