Top 20 Quotes by John C. Hawkes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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