To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
John C. Hawkes
The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.
John C. Hawkes
I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different.
John C. Hawkes
I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
John C. Hawkes
I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.