20 Quotes by John C. Hawkes

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.

I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.

I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English.

Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.

I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.