John C. Hawkes quotes:

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  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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