John C. Hawkes

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

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

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

“My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.”

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

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