Top 44 Jonathan Evison Quotes
#1. I really believe in challenging myself, pushing myself to new places.
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#2. 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. Sometimes you've got to give until it hurts.
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#3. I've been blessed with an optimistic disposition, I think.
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#4. He threw himself headlong at a job as if were he to stop the job would throw itself headlong back at him.
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#5. When I started caregiving, I was not on very firm ground. My first marriage had dissolved. I was working at an ice-cream stand in my thirties. I learned that when you don't have anything to give, that's when you really give, and then you get back so much more.
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#6. 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 Iraq. Fobbit deserves a place alongside Slaughterhouse Five and Catch-22 as one of our great comic novels about the absurdity of war.
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#7. I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and thoughts and yearnings and hurts and misgivings and pleasures that don't belong to me.
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#8. I love being a struggling artist; it makes me feel very alive.
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#9. I've been thinking about the cruel mathematics of my life, looking at my sums & wishing I'd shown my work.
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#10. As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.
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#11. It's a cruel process, aging. Take my advice, dear, maintain your independence as long as possible.
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#12. He prayed for clear skies and discovery, for danger and heartache and laughter, for a life beyond fear, a life that got bigger, really got bigger, as it receded.
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#13. I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?
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#14. In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.
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#15. You have to smile, if you expect anybody to smile back.
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#16. A man's destiny is not in the eyes of others. It's in his own. And that, my young friend, is as good as any bank note.
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#17. 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 rule.
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#18. There are holes in our lives that can never be filled - not really, not ever.
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#21. Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.
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#22. So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens.
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#23. It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.
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#24. This newfangled country is starting to grow on me, the adult despair of it all. Stuff I can relate to: lost loves, lost houses, lost dogs.
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#25. 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.
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#26. The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.
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#27. My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.
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#28. It was quiet and smooth -a gazelle trapped in the body of a wart hog.
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#29. You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when it's gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.
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#30. I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.
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#32. Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we've collected all that we are?
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#33. 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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#34. Why not get a job in West Yellow Stone selling buffalo turds? I could make clocks out of them.
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#35. I grew up in the Bay Area until 1976, then I pretty much went all the way through primary and high school on Bainbridge, though like anybody who grows up on an island, I ran the first chance I got.
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#36. For me, an ideal novel is a dialogue between writer and reader, both a collaborative experience and an intimate exchange of emotions and ideas. The reader just might be the most powerful tool in a writer's arsenal.
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#37. Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.
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#38. Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.
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#39. I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.
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#40. 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 and reader, an invaluable exchange of human conditions.
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#41. Wine is a much better salve than anything the medical profession has ever prescribed. Even the Bible condones it!
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#42. There're so many great writers out there who aren't getting the exposure they deserve.
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#43. Limited points of view let the writer dispense - and the reader gather - information from various corners of the story. It all becomes a kind of dance, with the writer guiding the reader through the various twists and turns. The challenge is keeping readers in step, while still managing to surprise.
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#44. I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.
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