Change Quote by Harry Mathews

My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.

— Harry Mathews

My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody…

— Harry Mathews

And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.

— Harry Mathews

There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.

— Harry Mathews

My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.

— Harry Mathews

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

— Harry Mathews

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to…

— Harry Mathews

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between…

— Harry Mathews

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was…

— Harry Mathews

“She was disgusted with herself...and the disgust permanently cured her of suicide. Her piddling life did not deserve dramatic remedies.”

— Harry Mathews

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France…

— Harry Mathews

I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.

— Harry Mathews