"I discovered John Fante when I was 17……" — Jonathan Evison
"I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy."
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29 Quotes by Jonathan Evison
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Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a…
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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…
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It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.
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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…
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My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.
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The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention…
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Fobbit is fast, razor sharp, and seven kinds of hilarious. Thank you, Mr. Abrams, for the much needed salve--it feels…
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We are born haunted, he said, his voice weak, but still clear. Haunted by our fathers and mothers and daughters,…
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Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?
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People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is…
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Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've…
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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…
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