John C. Hawkes Quotes
"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
(Related: Father, Ireland, Irish, Old, Parents)
"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
(Related: May)
"In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old."
- John C. Hawkes
(Related: People, Old)
"I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different."
- John C. Hawkes
"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."
- John C. Hawkes
(Related: America, Sense)
"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
- John C. Hawkes
(Related: Poems)
"I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting."
- John C. Hawkes
(Related: Mother)
"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
(Related: Life, Hearing, School)
"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
(Related: English, Jobs)
"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
(Related: People)
"To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening."
- John C. Hawkes
(Related: Fish, Ocean, Water)
"The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language."
- John C. Hawkes
(Related: Language, Magnificence)
"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."
- John C. Hawkes
(Related: Day)
"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."
- John C. Hawkes
(Related: Anxiety, Night, World)
"I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then."
- John C. Hawkes
(Related: Life, Choice, Doubt)
"As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari."
- John C. Hawkes
(Related: Dream, Illusion, Right)
"I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it."
- John C. Hawkes
(Related: Imagination, Fiction)
"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."
- John C. Hawkes
(Related: Mother, Play, Tennis)
"I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal."
- John C. Hawkes
(Related: Fiction, Prose, Want, Writing)