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.
Truth cannot be imparted, it must be inflicted. - Brian Evenson
Truth cannot be imparted, it must be inflicted.
- Brian Evenson
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, administrat… - Brian Evenson
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, administrat…
Any time I put together a story collection, I don't know what it's going to look like overall - or even what the title story is going to be. Over tim… - Brian Evenson
Any time I put together a story collection, I don't know what it's going to look like overall - or even what the title story is going to be. Over tim…
I don't always know what's going to go on in terms of the mood of the story. Sometimes I start with the mood, but sometimes I just try to work toward… - Brian Evenson
I don't always know what's going to go on in terms of the mood of the story. Sometimes I start with the mood, but sometimes I just try to work toward…
I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief more… - Brian Evenson
I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief more…
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 untrammel… - Brian Evenson
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 untrammel…
Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at once smart and sly… - Brian Evenson
Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at once smart and sly…
Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting residue. - Brian Evenson
Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting residue.
Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out o… - Brian Evenson
Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out o…
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