Juneau Quotes by John C. Hawkes

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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.
• I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.
• When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get…
• I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different.
• On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.
• In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.
• As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.
• The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.
• I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.
• To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
• I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.
• When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

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