64 Quotes by Jonathan Evison

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

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.

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

My parents divorced after 25 years of marriage.

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

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

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

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.

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