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Jonathan Evison

As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.

— Jonathan Evison destiny

I really believe in challenging myself, pushing myself to new places.

— Jonathan Evison self

I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.

— Jonathan Evison strange

After 20 years of writing in basically a vacuum, I love being part of a community. I've vetted other writers' contracts for them and do publicity for free just because I like a book. Some people think of it as hubris or careerism, but I love to champion books. You can't use your whole sphere of influence just to help yourself.

— Jonathan Evison love

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.

— Jonathan Evison hope

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.

— Jonathan Evison people

The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.

— Jonathan Evison die

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.

— Jonathan Evison man

I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.

— Jonathan Evison sleep

Homesteading is gone.

— Jonathan Evison tea

I love being a struggling artist; it makes me feel very alive.

— Jonathan Evison love

I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.

— Jonathan Evison writer

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.

— Jonathan Evison books

I'm a DIY kinda guy.

— Jonathan Evison

I've been blessed with an optimistic disposition, I think.

— Jonathan Evison think

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.

— Jonathan Evison writing

Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.

— Jonathan Evison people

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

— Jonathan Evison fiction

My parents divorced after 25 years of marriage.

— Jonathan Evison marriage

So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens.

— Jonathan Evison

There are holes in our lives that can never be filled - not really, not ever.

— Jonathan Evison live

There're so many great writers out there who aren't getting the exposure they deserve.

— Jonathan Evison writers

Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.

— Jonathan Evison fiction

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.

— Jonathan Evison change

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.

— Jonathan Evison school

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