20 Quotes by John C. Hawkes

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    My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.

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    On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.

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    My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.

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    I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different.

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    When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.

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    When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

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    I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.

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    As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

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    I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

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