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Harry Mathews Quotes

American - Author | February 14, 1930 -

My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.

Football School Me Remember Dream

I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.

Child Year First Child First Europe

When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.

Challenge City Paris Moved Daunting

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

Life Reading My Own Own Something

What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.

Me Writing Said Way He Correct

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.

Good Great Words Poetry Me Saying

Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.

Relationship Time America Left Well

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

Great Poetry Writing Adolescence

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

Poetry Learn Back Write Project Get

My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.

Mother Done Why Understand Never

My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.

Life Time Story Name My Life My Own

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.

Training Thought Paris Play Go Idea

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