Quotes by John Hawkes

When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and...

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

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To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish...

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

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

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

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My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be...

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My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I...

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It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm...

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

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

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

#John Hawkes