Top 20 Quotes by John C. Hawkes

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

I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.

On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.

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.

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

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

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.

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.

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