American - Novelist | August 17, 1925 - May 15, 1998
In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.
John C. Hawkes
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The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.
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I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.
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I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
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To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
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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.
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I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.
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When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.
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