20 Quotes by John C. Hawkes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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