Top 20 Quotes by John C. Hawkes

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

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

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

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

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.

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

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

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.

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.