125 Quotes by John Hawkes

Part of the way that I work is to observe.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

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

I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm – and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.