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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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