64 Quotes by Jonathan Evison

It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.

But once you publish a book, doesn’t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldn’t we just write books and print them out ourselves, and give them to specific people we felt comfortable giving them to–like gifts? Isn’t publishing sort of a social contract?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?

My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.

The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast of delightfully quirky characters, and a math lesson or two; all together, a winning equation! When Rojstaczer writes about mathematics, you'd think he was writing about poetry.