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I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

John C. Hawkes

My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.

John C. Hawkes

Imagination

Fiction

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.

On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.

Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.

John C. Hawkes

Day

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

John C. Hawkes

Language

Magnificence

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.

John C. Hawkes

People

I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English.

John C. Hawkes

English

Jobs

I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.

John C. Hawkes

Mother

I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.

John C. Hawkes

Poems

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

John C. Hawkes

America

Sense