John C. Hawkes

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

— John C. Hawkes

#go #had #hearing #i #life

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

— John C. Hawkes

#dream #illusion #lime #right #twig

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

— John C. Hawkes

#doubt #ever #fearsome #i #life

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

— John C. Hawkes

#best #english #how #i #jobs

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

— John C. Hawkes

#any #exile #feel #i #i do

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

— John C. Hawkes

#i #i remember #mother #mud #putting

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

— John C. Hawkes

#carry #filled #german #i #me

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

— John C. Hawkes

#fiction #i #interested #more #not interested

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

— John C. Hawkes

#i #normal #separated #somehow #typical

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

— John C. Hawkes

#fiction #i #imagination #interested #only