John C. Hawkes
John C. Hawkes
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 August 1925
CountryUnited States of America
John C. Hawkes quotes about
american-novelist finding putting somehow
I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.
american-novelist becomes interested prose recognized
I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
american-novelist people
In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.
american-novelist conceiving imagination
I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
american-novelist somehow typical
I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different.
american-novelist singer
My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.
american-novelist lime twig
As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.
american-novelist
I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.