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It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.
— Jonathan Evison
I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.
— Jonathan Evison
I'm a DIY kinda guy.
— Jonathan Evison
I've been blessed with an optimistic disposition, I think.
— Jonathan Evison
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.
— Jonathan Evison
It's a cruel process, aging. Take my advice, dear, maintain your independence as long as possible.
— Jonathan Evison
So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens.
— Jonathan Evison
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.
— 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.
— Jonathan Evison
Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.
— Jonathan Evison
I really believe in challenging myself, pushing myself to new places.
— Jonathan Evison
Wine is a much better salve than anything the medical profession has ever prescribed. Even the Bible condones it!
— Jonathan Evison
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.
— Jonathan Evison
My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.
— Jonathan Evison
I love being a struggling artist; it makes me feel very alive.
— Jonathan Evison
Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.
— Jonathan Evison
There're so many great writers out there who aren't getting the exposure they deserve.
— Jonathan Evison
It was quiet and smooth -a gazelle trapped in the body of a wart hog.
— Jonathan Evison
My parents divorced after 25 years of marriage.
— Jonathan Evison
He threw himself headlong at a job as if were he to stop the job would throw itself headlong back at him.
— Jonathan Evison
I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.
— Jonathan Evison
The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.
— Jonathan Evison
In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.
— Jonathan Evison
I've been thinking about the cruel mathematics of my life, looking at my sums & wishing I'd shown my work.
— Jonathan Evison
Homesteading is gone.
— Jonathan Evison
You have to smile, if you expect anybody to smile back.
— Jonathan Evison
Why not get a job in West Yellow Stone selling buffalo turds? I could make clocks out of them.
— Jonathan Evison
I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.
— Jonathan Evison
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.
— Jonathan Evison
As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.
— Jonathan Evison