John C. Hawkes

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

— John C. Hawkes

#lime #made #old #people #them

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. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#back #convinced #female #forth #hard

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. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#before #died #father #homestead #i

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

— John C. Hawkes

#mother #much #piano #play #she

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

— John C. Hawkes

#before #came #down #married #me

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

— John C. Hawkes

#almost #day #days #every #every day

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

— John C. Hawkes

#language #magnificence #only #the only thing #thing

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

— John C. Hawkes

#enormous #fish #frightening #just #like

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

— John C. Hawkes

#good #how #i #immediately #knew

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. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#alaska #get #isolated #lived #only