All Harry Mathews Quotes
- Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my… Addicted
- I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards… Attraction
- I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized… Best
- And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't. College
- It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and… Been
- My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name. Cia
- My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done. Finally
- My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding. Get Back
- 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… Actually Saying
- 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… Actually Happened