21 Quotes by John Hawkes
- When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.
- 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.
- 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.
- In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.
- I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.
- I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.
- I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.
- 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.
- To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
- The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.
- Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.
- On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.
- As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.
- I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
- My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.
- I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
- As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.
- I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho.
- I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.
- I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do.
- You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help.
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