All John Hawkes Quotes
Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.
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In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.
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My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.
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I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.
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To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
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When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.
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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.
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I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English.
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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.
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The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.
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I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different.
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I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.
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I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
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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.
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