Top 20 Quotes by John C. Hawkes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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