Top 20 Quotes by John C. Hawkes

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.

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

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

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.

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

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

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

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

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

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.