John C. Hawkes Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
John C. Hawkes quotes and sayings page 2 (novelist). These are the last 10 out of 20 quotes we have.
“I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.”
“I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.”
“I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different.”
“I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.”
“On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.”
“The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.”
“When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.”
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