"My next project is to get back to……" — Harry Mathews

"My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding."

— 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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