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 Hawkes

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

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

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

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 Hawkes

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 Hawkes

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