Facts about John C. Hawkes

Occup.	Novelist
From	USA
Born	August 17, 1925
Died	May 15, 1998
Aged	72 years

Summary

John C. Hawkes was a famous Novelist from USA, who lived between August 17, 1925 and May 15, 1998. He/she became 72 years old.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac leo, who is known for Ruling, Warmth, Generosity, Faithful, Initiative. Our collection contains 20 quotes who is written / told by John.

20 Famous quotes by John C. Hawkes

"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"

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"In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old"

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"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense"

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"As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari"

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"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately"

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"I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then"

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

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

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"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me"

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

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

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"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"

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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 was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different"

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

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

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"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems"

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

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