"I think situations are more important than plot……" — Harry Mathews

"I think situations are more important than plot and character."

— Harry Mathews

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30 Quotes by Harry Mathews

Harry Mathews has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I…
It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was…
You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.
There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.
Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of…
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation…
What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought…
Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're…
I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year…

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More Character Quotes

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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition… — Aristotle
One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about… — J. J. Abrams
My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was… — Lance Armstrong
Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a… — Rowan Atkinson
When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things -… — Rowan Atkinson

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