Brian Evenson Quotes

Anything can happen: anything. Or nothing. Who can say? The world, monstrous, is made that way, and in the end consumes us all. Who am I, administrated or no, to have the audacity to survive it?

Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting residue.

Truth cannot be imparted, it must be inflicted.

When I say I'm instinctive [in writing], I do feel like I need to hide what I'm doing from myself. My mind just needs to be able to operate untrammeled.

Of course there’s another choice, he thought. There is always another choice. I’m just not going to take it.

Curiosity is a terrible thing, he was thinking. How is it possible to stop oneself from needing to know?