John C. Hawkes Quotes

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

Life, School, Sunday

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

Dream, Illusion, Center

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

Life, Doubt, Moment

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

Best, English, Jobs

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

America, Sense, Exile

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

Mother, Remember, Finding

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

Used, Carry, German

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

Writing, Personal, Interested

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

Different, Whatever, Normal

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

Interested, Fiction, Voices

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

Made, Two, Young

It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.
John C. Hawkes

Hard, May, Same

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.
John C. Hawkes

Father, Parents, Before

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

Mother, Play, Wanted

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

Night, Down, Before

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

Year, Days, Almost

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

Language, Exists, Torment

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
John C. Hawkes

Fish, Water, Ocean

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

Good, Writing, Started

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.
John C. Hawkes

Lived, Ship, Town

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: August 17, 1925

Died: May 15, 1998

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